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The woman most often known as ‘Ada Lovelace’ was born Ada Gordon in 1815, sole child of the brief marriage of the poet George Gordon, Lord Byron, and his mathematics-loving wife Annabella Milbanke. |
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At the age of 19 she was married to an aristocrat, William King; when King was made Earl of Lovelace in 1838 his wife became Lady Ada King, Countess of Lovelace. She is generally called Ada Lovelace, which is a little incorrect but saves confusion! She had three children. In 1833, Lovelace’s mentor, the scientist Mary Sommerville, introduced her to Charles Babbage, the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics who had already attained considerable celebrity for his visionary and unfinished plans for calculating machines. Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace both had somewhat unconventional personalities and became close and lifelong friends. |
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Lovelace was deeply intrigued by Babbage’s plans for a tremendously complicated device he called the Analytical Engine. It was never built, but the design had all the essential elements of a modern computer, with an elaborate punch card operating system. |
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Ada Lovelace died of cancer at 36, a few short years after the publication of “Sketch of the Analytical Engine, with Notes from the Translator”. Source: findingada.com |