Ada Lovelace (World's first programmer and computer scientist)

Ada Lovelace (10 December 1815 - 27 November 1852) was an English mathematician and writer. She worked on the mechanical general-purpose computer (analytical engine) proposed by Charles Babbage and firstly understood that this machine can do a lot more along with 'net calculation'. She also built the first algorithm to run on this type of machine. For this reason it is believed that Ada was the first person to understand the full potential of 'computing machine'. And it is also believed that she was the first programmer in the world.

Early life

Born on December 10, 1815, Ada is the daughter of George Gordon Byron and Annabella. Father, Byron, was a famous poet of that time. But unfortunately Ada Kecil never knew the father because of the brief marriage age between Byron and Annabella. There are also small children who rarely get care and love from their mother. Ada was taken care of by her grandmother, Judith Milbanke, who really loved her. This was made worse by the condition that Ada was often sick. She had been paralyzed for almost a year and had to walk using crutches in 1831.

Since childhood, Annabella did train her children to use her left brain more often. This was supported by Ada's passion for mathematics. When she was 17 years old, existing abilities in the field began to appear. One of Ada's teachers, Augustus De Morgan, asked that she be directed to the field because De Morgan saw there was a special talent in Ada.

Career

Ada meeting with Charles Babbage became the beginning of her career. Babbage himself was an English mathematician who first expressed his opinions about programmable computers. Ada was interested in a program that was being run by Babbage, the Difference Engine. Instead, Babbage was also amazed by Ada's intellectual and talent writing. Babbage even gave the nickname "The Enchantress of Numbers" to Ada. Both of them then formed a partnership.

There then helped Babbage write the first computer program in the world created through Babbage's creation engine called the Analytical Engine. In this case, Ada's big role is to translate the article Luigi Menabrea, an Italian mathematician. Ada also wrote a preliminary explanation of computers and software, and added notes about the method of calculating Bernoulli numbers on the machine Babbage developed. Because of that, Ada is known as the first computer programmer in the world.

Death

Due to uterine cancer and continues bleeding she die on November 27, 1852 at the age of 36, which made Ada fail to continue her development around the world of computers. For its contribution, in 1980 the US Department of Defense named its computer programming language "Ada" as a tribute to Ada. In addition, the British Computer Society routinely held computer science competitions for female students on a regular basis each year and named the medal as "Ada". Every mid-October, "Ada Lovelace Day" is held, an event that aims to improve women's abilities in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

Degree

• December 10, 1815 - July 8, 1835: The Honorable Ada Augusta Byron
• July 8, 1835-1838: The Right Honorable The Lady King
• November 27, 1852: The Right Honorable The Countess of Lovelace