{"id":1390,"date":"2015-03-09T13:11:29","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T13:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2015.itakeunconf.com\/?p=1390"},"modified":"2020-05-04T13:12:56","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T13:12:56","slug":"worlds-first-computer-programmer-woman-ada-lovelace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itakeunconf.com\/women-in-tech\/worlds-first-computer-programmer-woman-ada-lovelace\/","title":{"rendered":"World’s first computer programmer is a woman: Ada Lovelace"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The week to celebrate women in IT kicks off. Let’s bring upfront the stories of #famousITwomen who’ve made breakthrough contributions along the history.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Did you know that the\u00a0world’s first computer programmer is a woman?\u00a0Ada Lovelace<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0Our first source of inspiration. She was an English mathematician and writer. Her best recognized work is on Charles Babbage’s early in 1842 mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine<\/a>. This\u00a0was monumental in paving the way for the modern day computers.<\/p>\n

Her notes on the Analytical Engine\u00a0are considered the first algorithm ever used\u00a0to implement on a computer. She also developed a vision on the capability of computers to go beyond mere calculating or number-crunching.<\/p>\n

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“The Analytical Engine, on the contrary, is not merely adapted for tabulating the results of one particular function and of no other, but for developing and tabulating any function whatever. In fact the engine may be described as being the material expression of any indefinite function of any degree of generality and complexity…”<\/div>\n
–\u00a0Lovelace, Ada. Notes upon L. F. Menabrea\u2019s \u201cSketch of The Analytical Engine Invented by Charles Babbage\u201d. 1842.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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“One essential object is to choose that arrangement which shall tend to reduce to a minimum the time necessary for completing the calculation.”<\/div>\n
–\u00a0Lovelace, Ada. Notes upon L. F. Menabrea\u2019s \u201cSketch of The Analytical Engine Invented by Charles Babbage\u201d. 1842.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n