Series of posts #womenchangedtheworld Ada Lovelace
Did you know, programming wouldn’t even exist without the contribution of women?
Women in technology history goes back to the XIX century, bringing to our attention the most amazing and innovating technology that we use nowadays on a daily basis.
A young English writer and mathematician was born in London, 1815. Her name was Ada Lovelace, one believes she was the first one to make a suggestion that the machines can do not only pure calculations. One of her most popular works was the translation of Charles Babbage’s lecture from French to English. However, Ada was translating not the original lecture but the notes and the paper that was taken by Luigi Menabrea (a young Italian engineer and the future Prime Minister of Italy) during Charles Babbage’s lecture at the university of Turin.
In the process of translation, Ada augmented the paper with her own notes,
Ada, in her comments, described the algorithm for calculating Bernoulli numbers on an analytical machine. In fact, it was the first computer program written on paper. And it was applied on real machines only 100 years later.
Stephen Wolfram (a British-American computer scientist, physicist, and businessman, also known for the Wolfram Language, the programing language of compilation program Mathematica) highlights the contribution of Ada “”there’s nothing as sophisticated — or as clean — as Ada’s computation of the Bernoulli numbers. Babbage certainly helped and commented on Ada’s work, but she was definitely the driver of it”.
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