computer history
- 1. Computer History By: Lucia Hernandez-Carreon
- 2. All About Ada: In this powerpoint, I will show you some things about Ada Lovelace how she lived, what she did, and how she died.
- 3. At the beginning… Ada was born in London, December 10,1815. Adas father lead troops in the Greek war of independence (as celebrated by a big statue in Athens).
- 4. Ada Lovelace
- 5. Ada Lovelace English mathematician and writer Ada’s maiden name was Augusta Ada Byron. When she was just 12, she made a flying machine.
- 6. In 1980 the U.S department of defense named a newly developed computer language "Ada," after Lovelace.
- 7. She is known for mathematics and computing. Ada never met her half- sister Allegra who died when she was just 5. Ada Lovelace portrait at age 20.
- 8. “The mystery of Ada” What you see at your right is a letter from Ada to Charles Babbage—the Father of Computing.
- 9. Some things you may not know her… Ada Lovelace had 3 children. Ada died of uterine cancer in 1852, at the age of 36. Lady Bryon Ada Lovelace’s Mom
- 10. Gambling? She liked to gamble a lot, she lost a lot of money betting on the wrong horse at the Epsom Derby. Lovelace and Babbage had a mysterious book that probably had a program designed to predict which horse would win. Her request was to be buried next to the father she never knew, at a vault in the church of St. Mary Magdalene.
- 11. Two Opinions… “Ada was as mad as a hatter, and contributed little more to the ‘Notes’ than trouble,” and a “manic depressive with the most amazing delusions about her own talents.” She’s been honored with, among other things, a British medal of honor, a Google Doodle, a tunnel boring machine in London, and her own annual celebration.(According to Wikipedia.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace#Controversy_over_extent_of_contributions