Ada Lovelace About 0.3% of the world's population are computer programmers, but only the best ones are known worldwide. Ada Lovelace was the first computer programmer and did many unheard-of things in her time, inspiring many to work hard and achieve more. Lovelace is most famous for being the first computer programmer, thanks to her captivating inventions and insights. She met Charles Babbage, an inventor, at a party, and he became her mentor (Capstone, n.d.). Babbage helped Lovelace study for school and work on inventions. One of his inventions was written about in an article in French, which Lovelace translated (Spicer, 2024). Babbage then asked Lovelace to write down all of her thoughts along with the translation, and she did (Encyclopdia Britannica, n.d.). Her …show more content…
Despite the limitations of her time, Ada Lovelace accomplished many things that were uncommon for women of her era. She studied in a field that was largely unknown to her area (Capstone, n.d.), which is impressive considering she lived in England in the 1800s, when women's education and freedom were restricted. However, Lovelace's mother set very high standards for her daughter and enabled her to study all the subjects that men studied. Lovelace excelled in mathematics (Spicer, 2024), and she applied her knowledge to computer programming, a field that didn't even exist back then. As Lovelace didn't have a father (Capstone, n.d.), she relied on her mother and mentors to guide her through her educational journey. Her accomplishments were so significant that she earned a new title that motivates many individuals to pursue their aspirations. Her influence on present-day technology and society was huge (Capstone, n.d.), to the extent that a computer programming language was named after her, Ada (Encyclopdia Britannica, n.d.). She remains a symbol of the past, as without her foundational algorithm for Babbage's machine, our capacity to program the cutting-edge technology we currently enjoy
Studs Lonigan is the protagonist and the name of the trilogy of three novels, Young Lonigan, the Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan and Judgment Day, by the American author James T. Farrell. The novel is a classic depiction of Irish life in the South side of Chicago and how Studs Lonigan comes of age in the setting. It is particularly in the second part that Farrell brings to light the venom of racism and how its unchecked spread helped to produce and reproduce the ghetto. The main reason Farrell cites for writing the book is the urban world that he knew had never been portrayed honestly enough in fiction. In his words, ‘I am a second-generation Irish-American. The effects and scars of immigration are upon my life. The past was dragging through my boyhood and adolescence’ (Farrell, 1993). It was the acrimony that Farrell had for the Irish Chicago neighborhood in which he grew up that led him to write the novel. In his opinion the Catholic parish church as the neighborhood’s primary institution was a great obscurant whereby the immigrants and their children were always uncertain of their identity and place in the new land (Byrne, 2006).
Admiral Grace Murray Hopper is known as one of the first female computer scientists and the mother of Corbel programming. Hopper was born on December 9, 1906 in New York City and was the oldest of three children. Even as a child she loved played with gadgets, disassembling items such an alarm clocks to determine how they worked (Norman). Hopper parents and siblings had a huge impact on her life. Her father who was a successful insurance broker inspired Hopper to pursue higher education and not limit her to typical feminine roles during that time (Norman). Hopper excelled in school graduating from Vassar College in 1928 with a BA in mathematic and physics (Rajaraman 2). She later went on to receive her MA in mathematics from Yale University in 1930 and her PhD in 1943 (Rajaraman 2).
Grace Murray Hopper, born December 9, 1906, was a Math professor that enlisted in the United States Navy at the start of World War II. Over the time of her enlistment, Hopper developed several new programming languages, including COBOL, which is still one of the most used programming languages today. Hopper was also one of the first people to coin the term “computer bug”. Over the course of her life, Grace Hopper influenced many people through her service in the military and led a movement in modern electronics through her work.
Occupations in the field of computer science are considered to be “male” jobs. Women are increasingly less likely to enter the field than in years past. However, two of the first people that we were introduced to in our textbook as key people in the history of Computer Science are Ada Augusta and Grace Murray Hopper. The page limits of this paper do not allow the author to adequately describe all of the contributions that Grace made to Computer Science. Instead, you will be introduced to Grace Hopper and how her pioneering work on the Mark I continue to influence women and the world of computer science.
Specific Purpose: To inform the class about Ada Lovelace. She is considered to be one of the pioneers of computer science and modern technology.
Makenna Watson is a young girl who is 16 years old , who attends school at Chetek Weyerhaeuser High School. She is a very nice and kind person, that tries to put others before herself and puts out her shoulder for anyone to cry on. Her life will be shared to show how strong of a girl she is to go through things not many people have to go through.
Her constant perseverance to pursue her dreams influenced women to get an education beyond high school. Her drive has motivated young girls to pursue careers involved in the STEM field (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) to help them chase their aspirations and involving themselves in their communities. Women began to pursue higher positions in the business
...acknowledged as the greatest women mathematician of the 1900’s, even though she had to go through many obstacles and chauvinism. She was the first women to be accepted into a major college. She proved many of the stereotypes that women were considered to be erroneous, which in the long run also made her a famous person. She was the one who discovered the associative law, commutative law, and the distributive law. These are the Laws that make the basics for Algebra, Geometry, and Basic math. All together she has unquestionably earned the title as the most famous woman mathematician of the 1900’s.
So, while this woman has never been in the limelight, she pioneered molecular genetics as it is today. Without her stubborn need for the facts, the human genome would still be an enigma to us today. She is truly a role model for all women today.
I think Ada Lovelace is psychic, she once said ”That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal, as time will show.” for me it saying she knew her mind was like no mortal after all was rumored to have created the first computer algorithm. Ada Lovelace was lot in the footnotes of history, but now is more well known than ever, she and Percy Jackson both follow the hero’s journey, a journey every hero is supposed to do in their quest. Although they are very different Ada Lovelace and Percy Jackson have a similar hero’s journey to where they are now.
Grace Hopper was a very important figure and leader in relation to the early beginnings of computing and programming languages. Grace has a very wide range of work experience, including being a prominent educator, working on subroutines for the Mark 1 computer (which ended up being used as calculations for the Manhattan Project), is credited with being the designer of COBOL (the first versatile programming language capable of running on many different computers or hardware configurations), and invented the compiler, “that allowed the computers to, in effect, help program themselves” (301). Grace is also known for her role of bringing programming into a more gender neutral practice, rather than something seen as a male-only activity. I decided
...ere are gears used to select which numbers you want. Though Charles Babbage will always be credited with making the first “true” computer, and Bill Gates with popularizing it, Blaise Pascal will always have a place among the first true innovator of the computer. There is even a programming language called Pascal or Object Pascal which is an early computer program.
Computer engineering started about 5,000 years ago in China when they invented the abacus. The abacus is a manual calculator in which you move beads back and forth on rods to add or subtract. Other inventors of simple computers include Blaise Pascal who came up with the arithmetic machine for his father’s work. Also Charles Babbage produced the Analytical Engine, which combined math calculations from one problem and applied it to solve other complex problems. The Analytical Engine is similar to today’s computers.
Ada Lovelace is often referred to as the world's first computer programmer. Which is a little surprising, since she died roughly one hundred years before the computer as we know it was invented. She was born Augusta Ada Byron in London on December 10, 1815. Her father Lord Byron, the famous poet, and Lady Byron separated early in Ada's life.
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