The Resource Ada's algorithm : how Lord Byron's daughter Ada Lovelace launched the digital age, James Essinger
Ada's algorithm : how Lord Byron's daughter Ada Lovelace launched the digital age, James Essinger
Resource Information
The item Ada's algorithm : how Lord Byron's daughter Ada Lovelace launched the digital age, James Essinger represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Waubonsee Community College.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
Resource Information
The item Ada's algorithm : how Lord Byron's daughter Ada Lovelace launched the digital age, James Essinger represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Waubonsee Community College.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- Over 150 years after her death, a widely-used scientific computer program was named "Ada," after Ada Lovelace, the only legitimate daughter of the eighteenth century's version of a rock star, Lord Byron. Why? Because, after computer pioneers such as Alan Turing began to rediscover her, it slowly became apparent that she had been a key but overlooked figure in the invention of the computer. Essinger makes the case that the computer age could have started two centuries ago if Lovelace's contemporaries had recognized her research and fully grasped its implications. It's a remarkable tale, starting with the outrageous behavior of her father, which made Ada instantly famous upon birth. Ada would go on to overcome numerous obstacles to obtain a level of education typically forbidden to women of her day. She would eventually join forces with Charles Babbage, generally credited with inventing the computer, although as Essinger makes clear, Babbage couldn't have done it without Lovelace. Indeed, Lovelace wrote what is today considered the world's first computer program -- despite opposition that the principles of science were "beyond the strength of a woman's physical power of application."
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xvi, 254 pages
- Contents
-
- Poetic beginnings
- Lord Byron : a scandalous ancestry
- Annabella : Anglo-Saxon attitudes
- The manor of parallelograms
- The art of flying
- Love
- Silken threads
- When Ada met Charles
- The thinking machine
- Kinship
- Mad scientist
- The analytical engine
- The Jacquard loom
- A mind with a view
- Ada's offer to Babbage
- The Enchantress of Number
- A horrible death
- Redemption
- Isbn
- 9781612194578
- Link
- 9781612194080.jpg
- Label
- Ada's algorithm : how Lord Byron's daughter Ada Lovelace launched the digital age
- Title
- Ada's algorithm
- Title remainder
- how Lord Byron's daughter Ada Lovelace launched the digital age
- Statement of responsibility
- James Essinger
- Subject
-
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Women
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women
- Babbage, Charles, 1791-1871
- Babbage, Charles, 1791-1871
- Babbage, Charles, 1792-1871
- Biographies
- Biographies
- Biography
- COMPUTERS -- History
- COMPUTERS / History
- Computers
- Computers -- History -- 19th century
- Great Britain
- Großbritannien
- 1800 - 1899
- HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain
- History
- Informatik
- Lovelace, Ada King of, 1815-1852
- Lovelace, Ada King, Countess of, 1815-1852
- Lovelace, Ada King, Countess of, 1815-1852
- Mathematicians
- Mathematicians -- Great Britain -- Biography
- Women mathematicians
- Women mathematicians -- Great Britain -- Biography
- HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain
- Algorithmus
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Over 150 years after her death, a widely-used scientific computer program was named "Ada," after Ada Lovelace, the only legitimate daughter of the eighteenth century's version of a rock star, Lord Byron. Why? Because, after computer pioneers such as Alan Turing began to rediscover her, it slowly became apparent that she had been a key but overlooked figure in the invention of the computer. Essinger makes the case that the computer age could have started two centuries ago if Lovelace's contemporaries had recognized her research and fully grasped its implications. It's a remarkable tale, starting with the outrageous behavior of her father, which made Ada instantly famous upon birth. Ada would go on to overcome numerous obstacles to obtain a level of education typically forbidden to women of her day. She would eventually join forces with Charles Babbage, generally credited with inventing the computer, although as Essinger makes clear, Babbage couldn't have done it without Lovelace. Indeed, Lovelace wrote what is today considered the world's first computer program -- despite opposition that the principles of science were "beyond the strength of a woman's physical power of application."
- Biography type
- individual biography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1957-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Essinger, James
- Dewey number
-
- 510.92
- B
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
-
- QA29.L72
- QA29.L72
- LC item number
-
- E87 2014
- E86 2014
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Lovelace, Ada King
- Babbage, Charles
- Babbage, Charles
- Lovelace, Ada King
- Lovelace, Ada King of
- Babbage, Charles
- Women mathematicians
- Mathematicians
- Computers
- COMPUTERS
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
- HISTORY
- Computers
- Mathematicians
- Women mathematicians
- Great Britain
- Informatik
- Algorithmus
- Großbritannien
- HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain
- COMPUTERS / History
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women
- Mathematicians
- Label
- Ada's algorithm : how Lord Byron's daughter Ada Lovelace launched the digital age, James Essinger
- Link
- 9781612194080.jpg
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-242) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Poetic beginnings -- Lord Byron : a scandalous ancestry -- Annabella : Anglo-Saxon attitudes -- The manor of parallelograms -- The art of flying -- Love -- Silken threads -- When Ada met Charles -- The thinking machine -- Kinship -- Mad scientist -- The analytical engine -- The Jacquard loom -- A mind with a view -- Ada's offer to Babbage -- The Enchantress of Number -- A horrible death -- Redemption
- Control code
- ocn884439697
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- xvi, 254 pages
- Isbn
- 9781612194578
- Lccn
- 2014021837
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) i9781612194080
- (OCoLC)884439697
- Label
- Ada's algorithm : how Lord Byron's daughter Ada Lovelace launched the digital age, James Essinger
- Link
- 9781612194080.jpg
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-242) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Poetic beginnings -- Lord Byron : a scandalous ancestry -- Annabella : Anglo-Saxon attitudes -- The manor of parallelograms -- The art of flying -- Love -- Silken threads -- When Ada met Charles -- The thinking machine -- Kinship -- Mad scientist -- The analytical engine -- The Jacquard loom -- A mind with a view -- Ada's offer to Babbage -- The Enchantress of Number -- A horrible death -- Redemption
- Control code
- ocn884439697
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- xvi, 254 pages
- Isbn
- 9781612194578
- Lccn
- 2014021837
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) i9781612194080
- (OCoLC)884439697
Subject
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Women
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women
- Babbage, Charles, 1791-1871
- Babbage, Charles, 1791-1871
- Babbage, Charles, 1792-1871
- Biographies
- Biographies
- Biography
- COMPUTERS -- History
- COMPUTERS / History
- Computers
- Computers -- History -- 19th century
- Great Britain
- Großbritannien
- 1800 - 1899
- HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain
- History
- Informatik
- Lovelace, Ada King of, 1815-1852
- Lovelace, Ada King, Countess of, 1815-1852
- Lovelace, Ada King, Countess of, 1815-1852
- Mathematicians
- Mathematicians -- Great Britain -- Biography
- Women mathematicians
- Women mathematicians -- Great Britain -- Biography
- HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain
- Algorithmus
Genre
Library Links
Embed
Settings
Select options that apply then copy and paste the RDF/HTML data fragment to include in your application
Embed this data in a secure (HTTPS) page:
Layout options:
Include data citation:
<div class="citation" vocab="http://schema.org/"><i class="fa fa-external-link-square fa-fw"></i> Data from <span resource="http://link.library.waubonsee.edu/portal/Adas-algorithm--how-Lord-Byrons-daughter-Ada/jazR0aO0jKY/" typeof="Book http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/Item"><span property="name http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/label"><a href="http://link.library.waubonsee.edu/portal/Adas-algorithm--how-Lord-Byrons-daughter-Ada/jazR0aO0jKY/">Ada's algorithm : how Lord Byron's daughter Ada Lovelace launched the digital age, James Essinger</a></span> - <span property="potentialAction" typeOf="OrganizeAction"><span property="agent" typeof="LibrarySystem http://library.link/vocab/LibrarySystem" resource="http://link.library.waubonsee.edu/"><span property="name http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/label"><a property="url" href="https://link.library.waubonsee.edu/">Waubonsee Community College</a></span></span></span></span></div>
Note: Adjust the width and height settings defined in the RDF/HTML code fragment to best match your requirements
Preview
Cite Data - Experimental
Data Citation of the Item Ada's algorithm : how Lord Byron's daughter Ada Lovelace launched the digital age, James Essinger
Copy and paste the following RDF/HTML data fragment to cite this resource
<div class="citation" vocab="http://schema.org/"><i class="fa fa-external-link-square fa-fw"></i> Data from <span resource="http://link.library.waubonsee.edu/portal/Adas-algorithm--how-Lord-Byrons-daughter-Ada/jazR0aO0jKY/" typeof="Book http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/Item"><span property="name http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/label"><a href="http://link.library.waubonsee.edu/portal/Adas-algorithm--how-Lord-Byrons-daughter-Ada/jazR0aO0jKY/">Ada's algorithm : how Lord Byron's daughter Ada Lovelace launched the digital age, James Essinger</a></span> - <span property="potentialAction" typeOf="OrganizeAction"><span property="agent" typeof="LibrarySystem http://library.link/vocab/LibrarySystem" resource="http://link.library.waubonsee.edu/"><span property="name http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/label"><a property="url" href="https://link.library.waubonsee.edu/">Waubonsee Community College</a></span></span></span></span></div>