Monday, December 10, 2012
Ada Lovelace Day
Ada Lovelace Day aims to raise the profile of women in science,
technology, engineering and maths by encouraging people around the world
to talk about the women whose work they admire. This international day
of celebration helps people learn about the achievements of women in
STEM, inspiring others and creating new role models for young and old
alike.
Quotations by Ada Lovelace
I never am really satisfied that I understand anything;
because, understand it well as I may, my comprehension can only be an
infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand about the many
connections and relations which occur to me, how the matter in question
was first thought of or arrived at, etc., etc.
Ada LovelaceAugusta Ada King, countess of Lovelace
Augusta Ada Byron's father was the famous poet Lord George Gordon
Byron and her mother was Anne Isabelle Milbanke. Ada's parents married
on 2 January 1815 but separated on 16 January 1816, a month after she
was born. On 25 April 1816 Lord Byron went abroad and Ada never saw her
father again. Lord Byron never returned to England and died in Greece
when Ada was eight years old. Lady Byron was given sole custody of her
daughter Ada, who was declared a Ward in Chancery in April 1817, and she
tried to do everything possible in bring up her child to ensure that
she would not become a poet like her father.
Ada Lovelace: Founder of Scientific Computing
Ada Byron was the daughter of a brief marriage between the Romantic
poet Lord Byron and Anne Isabelle Milbanke, who separated from
Byron just a month after Ada was born. Four months later, Byron
left England forever. Ada never met her father (who died in Greece
in 1823) and was raised by her mother, Lady Byron. Her life was
an apotheosis of struggle between emotion and reason, subjectivism
and objectivism, poetics and mathematics, ill health and bursts
of energy.
Lady Byron wished her daughter to be unlike her poetical father,
and she saw to it that Ada received tutoring in mathematics and
music, as disciplines to counter dangerous poetic tendencies.
But Ada's complex inheritance became apparent as early as 1828,
when she produced the design for a flying machine. It was mathematics
that gave her life its wings.
Lady Byron wished her daughter to be unlike her poetical father,
and she saw to it that Ada received tutoring in mathematics and
music, as disciplines to counter dangerous poetic tendencies.
But Ada's complex inheritance became apparent as early as 1828,
when she produced the design for a flying machine. It was mathematics
that gave her life its wings. Ada Lovelace: Titles and styles by which she was known
- 10 December 1815 – 8 July 1835: The Honourable Ada Augusta Byron
- 8 July 1835 – 1838: The Right Honourable The Lady King
- 1838 – 27 November 1852: The Right Honourable The Countess of Lovelace
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