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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

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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
Work
Publication
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
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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
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Author
Subject
Genre
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
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  • 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
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Publication
Copyright
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-242) and index
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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
Publication
Copyright
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

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