Today is Ada Lovelace day . Ada Lovelace Day is an international day celebrating the achievements 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.
Who is Ada Lovelace ?
Ada Lovelace, was an English mathematician and writer .She worked with the inventor and engineer Charles Babbage‘ who is considered “father of the computer” , on the project of the mechanical general-purpose computer, the analytical engine . Her notes on the engine include what is recognised as the first algorithm intended to be processed by a machine; thanks to this, she is sometimes considered the world’s first computer programmer , which is quite impressive if you think she lived in the 19th century .
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”.
The Analytical Engine remained a vision, until Lovelace’s notes became one of the critical documents to inspire Alan Turning’s work on the first modern computers in the 1940s.
The programming language Ada was named after Ada Lovelace .
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