Ada's algorithm : how Lord Byron's daughter Ada Lovelace launched the digital age
The world's first computer programmer and daughter of Lord Byron finally gets credit for her research in this gossipy short biography. 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. In Ada Lovelace, James 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.
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- ISBN: 9781612194080
- Physical Description xvi, 254 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Publisher [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2014.
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Ada's Algorithm : How Lord Byron's Daughter Ada Lovelace Launched the Digital Age
Section | Section Description | Page Number |
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Preface | p. xi | |
1 | Poetic Beginnings | p. 3 |
2 | Lord Byron: A Scandalous Ancestry | p. 9 |
3 | Annabella: Anglo-Saxon Attitudes | p. 21 |
4 | The Manor of Parallelograms | p. 33 |
5 | Tire Art of Flying | p. 47 |
6 | Love | p. 57 |
7 | Silken Threads | p. 69 |
8 | When Ada Met Charles | p. 79 |
9 | The Thinking Machine | p. 85 |
10 | Kinship | p. 95 |
11 | Mad Scientist | p. 99 |
12 | The Analytical Engine | p. 113 |
13 | The Jacquard Loom | p. 131 |
14 | A Mind with a View | p. 149 |
15 | Ada's Offer to Babbage | p. 181 |
16 | The Enchantress of Number | p. 193 |
17 | A Horrible Death | p. 201 |
18 | Redemption | p. 229 |
Afterword | p. 237 | |
Sources | p. 239 | |
Further Reading | p. 243 | |
Acknowledgements | p. 245 | |
Index | p. 247 |