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  Ada Lovelace: Tutte le informazioni su Ada Lovelace su Encyclopedia.it
Ada Lovelace: Tutte le informazioni su Ada Lovelace su Encyclopedia.it
Augusta Ada Byron, figlia di Lord Byron e della matematica Annabella Milbanke, nacque a Londra il 10 dicembre 1815.
Il 5 giugno 1833, incontrò ad un ricevimento Charles Babbage, all'epoca vedovo quarantunenne: Ada rimase affascinata dalle idee e dal lavoro di Babbage, e iniziò a lavorare ai metodi di calcolo per la macchina alle differenze, rimasta incompiuta.
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 Ada Lovelace - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ada was the only legitimate child of the poet Lord Byron and his wife, Annabella Milbanke.
Ada was named after Byron's half-sister, Augusta Leigh, by whom he was rumoured to have fathered a child.
Lord Byron's Novel by John Crowley is a pastiche of a novel supposedly by Byron (in real life he did begin writing one, but is not known to have completed it), discovered after his death by his daughter, edited and with commentary by her.
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 Ada Lovelace: Founder of Scientific Computing
Lady Byron wished her daughter to be unlike her poetical father, and she saw to it that Ada received tutoring in mathematics and music, as disciplines to counter dangerous poetic tendencies.
Lady Byron and Ada moved in an elite London society, one in which gentlemen not members of the clergy or occupied with politics or the affairs of a regiment were quite likely to spend their time and fortunes pursuing botany, geology, or astronomy.
Ada died of cancer in 1852, at the age of 37, and was buried beside the father she never knew.
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 Augusta Ada Byron (1815 - 1852), Countess of Lovelace
Augusta Ada Byron (1815 - 1852), Countess of Lovelace
Ada kept up regular correspondence with the leading scientific lights of her day, and it was through her friendship with mathematician Mary Somerville that she was eventually (and perhaps inevitably) introduced to Charles Babbage.
Augusta Ada Byron was a complex, somewhat eccentric character, and it's probable that none of her contemporaries ever really understood the woman who managed to combine a towering intellect with a supposed alcohol dependency and a drug-induced fixation on fairies.
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 Ada Byron   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Ada's parents divorced soon after she was born and Ada was raised by her mother.
Lady Byron was quite determined that her daughter not pursue the reckless life of a poet, as her father did.
Ada's life was plagued with illness, and in 1852 at the age of 37, she died of uterine cancer.
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 Ada Byron Page
Augusta Ada Byron was born December 10, 1815, the daughter of the illustrious poet, Lord Byron.
Ada attended several lectures, usually accompanied by her mother or Mary Somerville, and did not let the attitudes of her time dissuade her from exploring her passion for mathematics.
Ada's description of the Analytical Engine, the set of instructions she wrote for it, and her speculations of its possible uses were published in 1843 in a collection of notes in Richard Taylor's Scientific Memoirs series.
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 Ada Byron Lovelace
By this time, Ada had a new tutor, Mary Somerville, the first female member of The Royal Society, (although she was not allowed to attend meetings) and author of "The Connection of the Physical Sciences." Through her son, Woronzow Grieg, Ada met and fell in love with William King.
Ada was not fond of children and although somewhat ashamed, she admitted to her mother her lack of interest in them.
Ada was not satisfied with her life and wanted to go back to her study of mathematics.
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 Augusta Ada Byron (1815-1852)
Augusta Ada Byron was born to Anna Isabella Milbanke and George Gordon Noel Byron (1788-1824), the famous poet Lord Byron, on 10 December 1815 in London, England.
Ada's mother had an interest in mathematics and the desire to encourage the rational aspects of Ada's character in opposition to the romantic influences of her father.
Lady Byron was full of admiration for the machine, and it is clear that she had a remarkable appreciation of the subtle enormities of Babbage's invention.
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 The My Hero Project - Augusta Ada Byron   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Ada Byron died one hundred and fifty years before the dawn of the computer revolution, but the theoretical work of this eccentric, dark-haired noblewoman would lay the foundations for the world's first computer program.
Byron was born in 1816 to the English poet George Gordon Noel Byron (Lord Byron) and Anna Isabella Millbanke Byron.
Byron's husband, William King (who later became the Earl of Lovelace) and Charles Babbage, who was sympathetic to the plight of women involved in the sciences, also enabled and encouraged her work.
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 Ada Byron, Lady Lovelace - Famous mathematicians pictures, posters, gifts items, note cards, greeting cards, and prints
Ada Byron, Lady Lovelace aspired to be "an Analyst (and Metaphysician)", a title she presciently invented for herself at a time when the notion of "professional scientist" had not even taken full form.
A complex intellect, Ada was the daughter of the romantic poet Lord Byron -- who separated from her mother only weeks after Ada's birth, and never met his daughter Ada -- and Annabella (Lady Byron), who was herself educated as both a mathematician and a poet.
Ada's portrait is overlaid with a notation from the Notes she wrote in"Sketch of the Analytical Engine", which anticipates the modern-day general purpose computer and modern computer programming.
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 Ada Home 1997-12 -- Happy Birthday Ada Lovelace
Ada's father was a romantic poet whose fame derived not only from his works but also from his wild and scandalous behavior.
Ada received further training in mathematics from Augustus DeMorgan, who is today famous for one of the basic theorems of Boolean Algebra which forms the basis for modern computers.
Ada and Babbage became good friends and she worked with him for the rest of her life, helping to document his designs, translating writings about his work, and developing programs to be used on his machines.
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 Augusta ada byron   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
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 Historical biography: Ada Byron Lovelace
Ada Byron Lovelace was one of the most charming personalities in computer history.
Ada Byron Lovelace was born on December 10, 1815 to the famous poet, Lord Byron and Annabella Milbanke.
Five weeks after Ada was born, Lady Bryon asked for a separation from her husband, and was given sole custody of the child.
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 Women Who Inspire Us, Ada Byron   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Byron was born December 10, 1815, the daughter of the poet Lord Byron.
Five weeks after Ada was born Lady Byron asked for a separation from Lord Byron and was awarded sole custody of young Ada, whom she raised to be a mathematician and scientist.
In 1843 Byron married the Earl of Lovelace.
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 Lovelace   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Lady Byron was given sole custody of her daughter Ada, who was declared a Ward in Chancery in April 1817, and she tried to do everything possible in bring up her child to ensure that she would not become a poet like her father.
In 1833 Ada Byron was presented at court and, on the 5 June that year, she met Charles Babbage at a party.
Ada Byron enjoyed attending mathematics and scientific demonstrations with Mary Somerville, but she also enjoyed her company on other occasions.
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 Ada
Augusta Ada Byron was born December 10, 1825 in a house overlooking London's Green Park.
Ada Byron was married at nineteen to a man who was eleven years her senior.
Babbage was amazed at Ada's work and felt it could easily serve as a paper on it's own, but Ada having made previous commitments to the publishers felt she could not break this agreement.
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 Ada Byron Lovelace
Ada Byron, the only legitimate child of Lord Byron, was born in December of 1815, and one month later her mother in a bitter and celebrated separation, left the "mad and bad" Byron and took Ada with her.
Ada was educated at home by governesses and tutors hired by her mother.
Ada was fascinated by these machines, but she was particularly interested in the plans for the Analytic Engine, what's more, she immediately understood how these machines would work.
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 Ada Byron Lovelace
Ada Lovelace was born Augusta Ada Byron on December 10, 1815.
Ada Lovelace was asked to translate the French document as she was well-versed both in French and mathematics.
Ada was diagnosed with cervical cancer, and on her deathbed, her mother insisted that she confess her sins.
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 Women in Mathematics (Ada Lovelace)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Ada was so intrigued by this loom-based construction that she translated works from French that discussed the machine.
Ada's accomplishments have been recognized by both her contemporaries, such as Michael Faraday and Charles Wheatstone, and modern computer scientists.
ADA is an object-oriented programming language that is popular in Europe for communication purposes.
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Ada Byron, Lady Lovelace, was one of the most picturesque characters in computer history.
August Ada Byron was born December 10, 1815 the daughter of the illustrious poet, Lord Byron.
Ada was touched by the "universality of his ideas".
www.cs.yale.edu /homes/tap/Files/ada-bio.html   (540 words)

  
 Ada Resource Assoc. Ada Info Ada Byron, Countess of Lovelace Bio
Ada Byron met Babbage when she was 17 years old, and had already been forced to commit her life to what she called "poetical science." She was the only legitimate daughter of the great Scottish poet, Lord Byron.
Anxious that her daughter not follow in the Byronic tradition, Lady Byron kept Ada on a strict educational diet of science and math.
Lady Ada should probably be given credit for the scheme: Babbage's vision for his computing machines was limited to mathematics, while she prophesized that it would be used for everything from writing music to drawing.
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 Inventor Ada Augusta Lovelace
Byron showed her understanding of the concept of a programmed computer in 1842, when she translated from French and annotated a paper by the Italian engineer Luigi F. Menabrea on Babbage's Difference Engine.
Augusta Ada Byron 's father was the famous poet Lord George Gordon Byron and her mother was Anne Isabelle Milbanke.
Augusta Ada Byron was born on 10 December 1815 in London.
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 Augusta Ada King, countess of Lovelace - a Whatis.com definition - see also: Ada Lovelace, Ada Byron, countess of ...
Ada, as she was called, was the daughter of the famous poet, Lord Byron and Annabella Milbanke Byron, who was, herself, an accomplished mathematician.
Ada had met Babbage when she was still in her teens and asked him to serve as her tutor several years later.
Ada, the programming language, is named in honor of the countess of Lovelace.
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 howard rheingold's | tools for thought
Byron wrote poignant passages about Ada in some of his poetry, and she asked to be buried next to him--probably to spite her mother, who outlived her.
Ada's mother, portrayed by biographers as a vain and overbearing Victorian figure, thought a daily dose of a laudanum-laced "tonic" would be the perfect cure for her beautiful, outspoken daughter's nonconforming behavior, and thus forced an addiction on her!
Ada, who immediately understood Babbage's models when she saw them, and who was tutored by De Morgan, the one man in the world best equipped to understand Boole, was the first person to speculate at any length about the operations of machines capable of performing logical as well as numerical operations.
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 Ada Byron   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Ada Byron, Lađ Lovelace, was one of the most picturesque characters in computer history.
Five weeks after Ada was born Lađ Byron asked for a separation from Lord Byron, and was awarded sole custođ of Ada who she brought up to be a mathematician and scientist.
Lađ Byron was terrified that Ada might end up being a poet like her father.
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 Ada Byron Lovelace Articles
Ada was raised in a single mother household where her early and persistent interest in things mechanical and mathematical was systematically encouraged but not at the expense of her abiding interest in the poetical, musical, or imaginative.
Ada Byron's viewing of the prototype of Babbage's Difference Engine #1 in 1833 happened to come at the start of two remarkable years of development of the concept of the Analytical Engine.
From Lady Byron's diary, we can trace elements of the excitement as Ada borrowed Babbage's engineering drawings to study them and met regularly with Babbage and Somerville as the new ideas involved in the Analytical Engine were hammered out.
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 Malaspina Great Books - Augusta Ada Byron-King (1815-1852)
Ada Byron, Lady Lovelace, was the daughter of the poet, Lord Byron.
At the age of 17 Ada was introduced to Mary Somerville,; a remarkable woman who wrote a rendition of LaPlace's Celestial Mechanics.
Though Somerville encouraged Ada in her mathematical studies, she also attempted to put mathematics and technology into an appropriate human context.
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 ada augusta byron the countess of lovelace and other augusta related information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Augusta Ada Byron, Countess of Lovelace, is best remembered today as the first computer-programmer, her development of a set of...
Augusta Ada Byron (1815-1852) Augusta Ada Byron was born to Anna Isabella Milbanke and George Gordon Noel...
Ada Byron, Lady Lovelace (1815-1852) Contributed by Dr. Betty Toole Ada Byron, Lady Lovelace, was one of the most picturesque characters in computer history.
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