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 Ada Lovelace - Wikipedia
Ada Lovelace (auch Ada Augusta Byron, Ada King oder Countess of Lovelace) (* 10.
Einige Biographen vertreten die Meinung, dass Ada Lovelace trotz ihrer Ausbildung einige Schwierigkeiten mit Mathematik hatte, und äußern deshalb Zweifel, ob sie Babbages Maschine wirklich vollständig verstanden hatte, oder nicht eher von Babbage als Aushängeschild zu Zwecken der Öffentlichkeitsarbeit missbraucht wurde.
Diese Frage wird wohl mit den heute zur Verfügung stehenden Informationen niemals abschließend geklärt werden.
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 Ada Lovelace - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Her husband was William King, 8th Baron King, later 1st Earl of Lovelace whom she married in 1835.
At her own request, Lovelace was buried next to the father she never knew at the Church of St. Mary Magdalene in Hucknall, Nottingham.
Biographers have noted that Lovelace struggled with mathematics, and there is some debate as to whether Lovelace understood deeply the concepts behind programming Babbage's engine, or was more of a figurehead used by Babbage for public relations purposes.
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 Buy essay or download free essay - Earl Lovelace and His Plays: Jestina's Calypso and the New Hardware Store   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Lovelace’s every work is an argument against retrogressive, narrow, colonial" concepts, and at the same time he describes the ways for individual and community’s adaptation mechanisms for the reader to change and critique.
Lovelace lectured in the English department at the University of the District of Columbia in Washington in the period from 1971 to 1973 and then he became a visiting novelist in the residence of University in Baltimore, there he received his Master of Arts diploma in English language.
Lovelace is master of what Henry Louis Gates in The Signifying Monkey (1988) calls "the paradox of representing, of continuing somehow, the oral within the written." The stories and novels speak in different codes, codifying fl history and tradition in Trinidad.
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 Leaders of the Information Age - Sample Profile: Lovelace, Ada King
Lovelace supported and defended Babbage's often maligned work throughout their association, and once wrote to him, "I am working very hard for you, like the Devil in fact (which perhaps I am.)," as quoted by Betty Toole in Ada, The Enchantress of Numbers (1992).
Lovelace's awareness of the fantastic possibilities inherent in computer technology is demonstrated in a letter to Babbage in which she famously mused, "No one knows what power lies yet undeveloped in that wiry system of mine."
It is believed that in her final years, free from the influence of her mother, Lady Lovelace was able to embrace the memory of the father she had never known and come to terms with her identity as his daughter.
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 Earl Lovelace   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Lovelace was born in Toco in 1935 to a housewife and a labouring man who planted the land he owned.
Lovelace is proud of having made his mark on world literature from a home base.
Lovelace, who, for a decade, was a UWI lecturer in English, is today a visiting lecturer at Wellesley College in Boston.
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 Earl Lovelace to retire to Trinidad / The Mast
Lovelace, a Trinidad native, says he plans to return home after retiring to finish the novel he is currently working on.
Lovelace is a well-known author and has won many awards for his writing including the British Petroleum Independence Literacy Award in 1965, The Pegasus Literary Award and the Guggenheim Fellowship.
Lovelace came to teach at PLU in 1998, and said what he will miss most about this university is the students.
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 Earl of Lovelace - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The title of Earl of Lovelace was created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1838.
The Earl bears the subsidiary titles of Viscount Ockham, of Ockham in the County of Surrey (1838), in the Peerage of the UK and Baron King, of Ockham in the County of Surrey (1725), in the Peerage of Great Britain.
Peter Axel William Locke King, 5th Earl of Lovelace (b.
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 Ada Lovelace - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (December 10, 1815 - November 27, 1852) is mainly known for having written a description of Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the analytical engine.
Her husband was, later 1st Earl of Lovelace whom she married in 1835.
Ada Lovelace died at 36 after being bled to death by her physicians; she had cancer of the uterus.
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 Earl Lovelace   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
arl Lovelace was born in Toco, Trinidad in 1935, and spent his childhood in Tobago and Port of Spain.
His first job was as a proofreader with the Trinidad Publishing Company, and he later joined the Civil Service, serving first in the Forestry Department and then in the Department of Agriculture.
Lovelace, who is presently a Visiting Professor at Wellesley College, was awarded the 1997
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 Lovelace_The Wine of Astonishment   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Lovelace was born in Toco, Trinidad, and grew up in Tobago and Port of Spain.
Lovelace studied at Howard University and then later taught at Federal City College, Virginia Union, and Johns Hopkins.
Lovelace gives the narration to a presumably uneducated woman whose speech suggests a creolized English.
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 ADA LOVELACE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
November 1852 in London); eigentlich Augusta Ada King Byron, Countess of Lovelace) war eine britische Mathematikerin, Tochter von Lord Byron und Mitarbeiterin von Charles Babbage.
Ihre ebenfalls mathematisch interessierte Mutter, Anne Isabella Milbank, ermöglichte ihr eine naturwissenschaftliche Ausbildung, in deren Verlauf sie Charles Babbage und die Mathematikerin Mary Sommerville kennenlernte.
Ada Lovelace ist mit 37 Jahren jung an Krebs gestorben, im gleichen Alter wie auch ihr Vater starb.
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 Local News!
A distinguished Caribbean novelist, Earl Lovelace of Trinidad and Tobago, treated residents of the BVI to a reading from some of his works recently.
Lovelace focussed on the need for persons to not only see ourselves as ordinary people, but to understand that our forbearers were really ordinary people.
Lovelace said writing is not magical, it demands a lot of hard work, an understanding of the place and a wealth of knowledge.
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 The Amazing Adding Subtracting Composing Creating Do-Everything Machine: Ada Lovelace Envisions Modern Computing
Lovelace was born Augusta Ada Byron in December 1815 to the Romantic poet Lord George Gordon Byron.
Lovelace’s husband became the Earl of Lovelace in 1838 and Ada became a countess.
It’s been said that Lovelace’s work had little influence on the field of computer science because everything that she had written was eventually rediscovered in the 1940s and 1950s.
www.neh.gov /news/humanities/2003-01/lovelace.html   (1823 words)

  
 Earl of Lovelace   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Earl bears the subsidiary titles of Viscount Ockham of Ockham in the County of (1838) in the Peerage of the UK Baron King of Ockham in the County of (1725) in the Peerage of Great Britain.
The novel Salt (Faber 1996) has won the 1997 Commonwealth Writer's Prize which probably comes as no surprise to the Caribbean reader, for Earl Lovelace is a highly acclaimed and tried writer from Trinidad.
Earl Scruggs, Doc Watson and Ricky Skaggs team up on what has to be as good as bluegrass music gets.
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 Lust and Betrayal Among Trinidad's Poor / Earl Lovelace sets shantytown feuds against a backdrop of Carnival
Earl Lovelace, of Trinidad, is a key figure in that arena.
Lovelace draws on island patois and his own considerable poetic gifts to portray his setting in brilliantly vivid terms: ``Is noise whole day.
Lovelace doesn't so much tell a story as trace the web of friendships and romances among these central characters and the social changes that affect them as a whole.
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 Important Women in Computer Science
Lovelace was born in 1815 to the poet Lord Byron and Annabella Milbanke, who were legally seperated one year later.
She was married in 1835 to the future first Earl of Lovelace, who supported her interest in mathematics.
Lovelace was best known for her 1843 translation from French to English of Menabrea's report on Babbage's Turin lecture, which she added to her own voluminous notes.
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 salt by earl lovelace Free Essays
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Malcolm X Malcolm X was born Malcolm Little on May 19, 1925, in Omaha, Nebraska to his parents Earl and Louise Little.
Earl was a Baptist minister and organizer for...
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 Seeing the world afresh / Features / Scene Online - Spring 2005 / Pacific Lutheran University
Earl Lovelace has been called a master storyteller, known for his lyrical style and memorable characters.
Lovelace, 69, has been PLU’s distinguished writer in residence for five years and is a celebrated figure in Trinidad.
Lovelace, whose tenure at PLU ended last fall, said he will miss the students, who have impressed him with their intelligence and their ethics, which he says will prepare them for the complexities of the world.
www.plu.edu /scene/issue/2005/spring/features/seeing-the-world.html   (891 words)

  
 Cayman Net News: Author Earl Lovelace delights and challenges Harquail audience
Lovelace read from several of his novels, including The Wine Of Astonishment and The Dragon Can’t Dance.
After the reading, Lovelace took questions from the audience, many which revolved around the use of the Trinidad vernacular in his writing.
Lovelace, who stayed with the audience longer than anticipated, concluded the evening by signing books for many audience members eager to share a word with this thought-provoking writer.
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 Amazon.com: Books: The Dragon Can't Dance   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
As always, Lovelace is concerned with how West Indian men and women struggle to find their individual identities in the face of dehumanizing living conditions, and how they resist cultural assimilation.
Lovelace's stinging critique of race and politics is poignant and luminously presented.
Lovelace weaves a tale that explains so much about Caribbean culture and the need for its people to be seen and validated by others.
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 Ada Lovelace   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (December 10, 1815 - November 27, 1852) is mainly known for having written a description of Charles Babbage 's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the analytical engine.
As an early woman in computing, Lovelace occupies a politically sensitive space in the canon of historicalfigures in computer science, and therefore the extent of her contribution versus Babbage's remains difficult to assess based oncurrent sources.
She is one of the main characters in the alternate history novel The Difference Engine by Bruce Sterling and William Gibson, which posits a world in which Babbage's machines were mass produced and the computer agestarted a century early.
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 Lovelace, Earl. The Dragon Can't Dance.
Distinguished Trinidadian novelist Lovelace writes fiction as syncopated, sinuous, and irresistible as the calypso music that punctuates the lives of his poor but proud characters.
Conflict also drives Fisheye, a warrior without a cause whose restlessness infects his fellow drummers to the point that their steel bands become veritable street gangs, and Pariag, the only Indian on the Hill and the most ambitious and innocent of the lot.
As Lovelace masterfully choreographs the dance of each of his finely drawn characters, he reveals the conundrums not only of Caribbean life but of the human condition itself.
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August Ada Byron was born December 10, 1815 the daughter of the illustrious poet, Lord Byron.
Ada, in 1843, married to the Earl of Lovelace and the mother of three children under the age of eight, translated Menabrea's article.
In her article, published in 1843, Lady Lovelace's prescient comments included her predictions that such a machine might be used to compose complex music, to produce graphics, and would be used for both practical and scientific use.
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 Ada Lovelace
Lord King soon became Earl of Lovelace, and she Countess of Lovelace, after they were married, and she had three children by him.
The entire issue is eclipsed by the fact that Ada Lovelace was a very good mathematician and further intelligent enough to understand the potential of Charles Babbage’s ideas at the first demonstration of the Difference Engine, where she met Charles Babbage and spoke to him at length about the Engine.
Ada Lovelace, as many of the mathematicians who dealt with computation did then, chose to speak her mind on the subject of artificial intelligence.
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 Historical biography: Ada Byron Lovelace
Ada Byron Lovelace was born on December 10, 1815 to the famous poet, Lord Byron and Annabella Milbanke.
Somerville who arranged for Ada to meet Lord William King, Earl of Lovelace, who was to later become her husband.
Lady Lovelace died of Cancer in 1852 at the age of 36, leaving behind her husband and three children.
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 Ada Byron Lovelace
William King became a member of the House of Lords and took the name of Earl of Lovelace.
Lovelace took care of their country estates while lady Byron took care of the children.
Although forgotten for a century, Ada Byron Lovelace's works were rediscovered in 1954 and in the 1970's a computer program was dedicated to her and named Ada in her honor.
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 “Priest and Teacher, Pastoral Conflict in Earl Lovelace’s The Schoolmaster”
In the novel, the pastoral perspectives of the priest and schoolmaster on this remote Trinidadian village reveal the post-colonial root of the novel’s tragic consequences as well as celebrate the regenerative powers of the pastoral mode and the rural community Lovelace portrays.
The Creole Spanish villagers themselves present a cross section of a small rural community of the sort Lovelace knew first hand from his travels in the service of the Forestry and Agriculture Departments.
And through the novel, Earl Lovelace likewise echoes Walcott’s claim: "Poets and satirists are afflicted with the superior stupidity which believes that societies can be renewed." But not without suffering.
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 Ada Lovelace   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Her husband was William King 8th Baron later 1st Earl of Lovelace.
However biographers have noted that Lovelace struggled mathematics and there is some debate as whether Lovelace understood deeply the concepts behind Babbage's engine or was more of a used by Babbage for public relations purposes.
She is one of the main characters the alternate history novel The Difference Engine by Bruce Sterling and William Gibson which posits a world in which machines were mass produced and the computer started a century early.
www.freeglossary.com /Ada_Byron   (804 words)

  
 thePeerage.com - Person Page 2744
William King, 1st Earl of Lovelace was the son of Peter King, 7th Baron King and Lady Hester Fortescue.
She married William King, 1st Earl of Lovelace, son of Peter King, 7th Baron King and Lady Hester Fortescue, on 8 July 1835.
Ralph Gordon Noel King, 2nd Earl of Lovelace was the son of William King, 1st Earl of Lovelace and Hon.
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