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Ada Lovelace Day

Posted on October 11, 2016August 1, 2017 by Joe Del Rocco

Various resources to help you appreciate Ada, Countess of Lovelace as certainly one of the first, if not the very first, documented programmer for a general purpose computing machine.

Numbers of Bernoulli program intended for Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine:
http://www.fourmilab.ch/babbage/figures/menat6_1-5k.png
http://www.fourmilab.ch/babbage/sketch.html
(Note that Ada’s “Notes” are much longer than the original translation itself)
(I thank John Walker for hosting this excellent quality copy for so long)

Babbage’s Passages From The Life of a Philosopher:
https://archive.org/stream/passagesfromlif01babbgoog#page/n156

Ada Lovelace Day
http://findingada.com/about
http://www.forbes.com/sites/sujatakundu/2016/10/10/ada-lovelace-day-2016-a-celebration-of-women-in-science-and-technology/#286147d75fae

More:
http://www.computerhistory.org/babbage/adalovelace
http://findingada.com
https://adainitiative.org
http://www.history.com/news/10-things-you-may-not-know-about-ada-lovelace
https://www.cnet.com/news/ada-lovelace-day-why-were-still-talking-about-her
https://www.sdsc.edu/ScienceWomen/lovelace.html
http://makezine.com/2016/10/11/ada-lovelace-day-dont-forget-women-know-stem
https://www.theguardian.com/science/sifting-the-evidence/2013/oct/15/medical-research-health
https://www.google.com/doodles/ada-lovelaces-197th-birthday

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