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Item Information       Summary     More Content     More by this author     Essinger, James, 1957-     Subjects     Lovelace, Ada King, Countess of, 1815-1852.     Babbage, Charles, 1791-1871.     Women mathematicians -- Great Britain -- Biography.     Mathematicians -- Great Britain -- Biography.     Computers -- History -- 19th century.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Essinger, James, 1957-       by title:      Ada's algorithm [ele...         MARC Display

Ada's algorithm [electronic resource] : how Lord Byron's daughter Ada Lovelace launched the digital age / James Essinger. by Essinger, James, 1957- Brooklyn, N.Y. : Melville House, c2014. Subjects Lovelace, Ada King, Countess of, 1815-1852.   Babbage, Charles, 1791-1871.   Women mathematicians -- Great Britain -- Biography.   Mathematicians -- Great Britain -- Biography.   Computers -- History -- 19th century. Electronic Resource http://hawaii.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=034FA6DE-29D8-4F07-8EF3-61BB2465DD03 This title is available online; click here to access Electronic Resource http://images.contentreserve.com/ImageType-100/0111-1/{034fa6de-29d8-4f07-8ef3-61bb2465dd03}Img100.jpg ISBN:  9781612194097 (electronic bk.) 1612194095 (electronic bk.) Description:  1 online resource. Requests:  0 Summary:  "The world's first computer programmer and daughter of Lord Byron finally gets credit for her research in this gossipy short biography Over 150 years after her death, a widely-used scientific computer program was named "Ada," after Ada Lovelace, the only legitimate daughter of the eighteenth century's version of a rock star, Lord Byron. Why? Because, after computer pioneers such as Alan Turing began to rediscover her, it slowly became apparent that she had been a key but overlooked figure in the invention of the computer. In Ada Lovelace, James Essinger makes the case that the computer age could have started two centuries ago if Lovelace's contemporaries had recognized her research and fully grasped its implications. It's a remarkable tale, starting with the outrageous behavior of her father, which made Ada instantly famous upon birth. Ada would go on to overcome numerous obstacles to obtain a level of education typically forbidden to women of her day. She would eventually join forces with Charles Babbage, generally credited with inventing the computer, although as Essinger makes clear, Babbage couldn't have done it without Lovelace. Indeed, Lovelace wrote what is today considered the world's first computer program--despite opposition that the principles of science were "beyond the strength of a woman's physical power of application." Based on ten years of research and filled with fascinating characters and observations of the period, not to mention numerous illustrations, Essinger tells Ada's fascinating story in unprecedented detail to absorbing and inspiring effect"--   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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