Ada Lovelace: Great Minds
Ada Lovelace, Daughter of Lord Byron, was somehow the first author of a computer program...even though she lived more than a century before the first modern computer. Like SciShow? Want to...
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Her father was one of Britain’s greatest poets, but her mother, hoping to steer her away from those “dangerous poetic tendencies” made sure she received tutoring in math and music, and it worked. Today, Ada Lovelace is considered by many to be the first author of a computer program -- despite living a century before the invention of the modern computer. As long ago as the 1840s, Lovelace envisioned machines that could manipulate symbols instead of just numbers. And while there are some who debate her title as “world’s first programmer,” there’s no denying her influence as a gifted mathematician who was also WAY, WAY, WAY, WAY, WAY ahead of her time. Her father was the poet Lord Byron, and while he wasn’t around for much of his daughter’s li...
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Her father was one of Britain’s greatest poets, but her mother, hoping to steer her away from those “dangerous poetic tendencies” made sure she received tutoring in math and music, and it worked. Today, Ada Lovelace is considered by many to be the first author of a computer program -- despite living a century before the invention of the modern computer. As long ago as the 1840s, Lovelace envisioned machines that could manipulate symbols instead of just numbers. And while there are some who debate her title as “world’s first programmer,” there’s no denying her influence as a gifted mathematician who was also WAY, WAY, WAY, WAY, WAY ahead of her time. Her father was the poet Lord Byron, and while he wasn’t around for much of his daughter’s li...
