Ada Lovelace Portrait, 1835
Short Biography of Ada Lovelace
- Daughter of poet Lord Byron and Anne Isabelle Milbanke
Who Was Ada Lovelace?
Ada Lovelace, Poet of Science, The First Computer Programmer. Diane Stanley. Illustrated by Jessie Hartland. Simon & Schuster, 2016
Who Was Ada? from Ada Lovelace Day
- Ada Lovelace became well known for her mathematics and coding in a time where women were not taught math
- She did not conform to traditional gender roles and expectations
- See also resources here and here for more biographical information on Ada Lovelace
Portrait by Alfred Edward Chalon (1838)
Make a timeline of Ada Lovelace's life with this interactive game
Link here to see Ada Lovelace's idea come to life! The Babbage Difference Engine Built with LEGO Pieces
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Charles Babbage's difference engine |
She became a correspondent to mathematician Charles Babbage
- Babbage created the plans for the Difference Machine, the world's first calculator
- Babbage began planning an Analytical Machine
- She created notes on the machine and its step sequences
- Her notes became the first computer "code"
Article from the New York Times on the Development of an Analytical Engine
- Focuses on the program she wrote for the Analytical Engine, then goes on to talk about her life, essentially a biography with two pictures of Ada Lovelace
Multimedia Resources
Ada Lovelace: Information Pioneer on Vimeo
Ada Lovelace from Science in Seconds on YouTube
Ada Lovelace from SciShow Channel on YouTube
- Audio, video, a good amount of graphics, the presenter's voice isn’t boring and makes jokes with the history he talks about
Conceiving Ada Movie Trailer a 1997 science fiction film in which Tilda Swinton plays Ada Lovelace
Film Review: Calling Byron's Daughter, Inventor of a Computer, The New York Times (February 26, 1999)
Not Your Typical Role Model: Ada Lovelace the 19th Century Programmer. Hannah Fry comments about her film, Calculating Ada: The Countess of Computing
10 Things You May Not Know about Ada Lovelace
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