June 5, 1833: Ms. Software, Meet Mr. Hardware


	June 5, 1833: Ms. Software, Meet Mr. Hardware

Mohir

6-5-2008 12:04 PM

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computers, ada, ada byron, babbage

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June 5, 1833: Ms. Software, Meet Mr. Hardware

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/53f21698-64da-47ab-a7b0-1a87a52fd929/B9F2171A-E09F-4A50-B127-208CDB9DE5D6/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/06/dayintech_0605" href="http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/06/dayintech_0605" style="font-size: 11px;">www.wired.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/06/dayintech_0605"><P><STRONG>1833: </STRONG>Ada Byron meets Charles Babbage. He designed an early computer, and she would write the first computer program.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/06/dayintech_0605"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.wired.com/img/F7AD29EA-41FC-4197-88D7-81ECA4FE974C" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/06/dayintech_0605"><P>Ada's father was the poet Lord Byron, but her parents separated when she was a month old. Her famous -- and poetically wild -- father went to Greece, and <A href="http://www.sdsc.edu/ScienceWomen/lovelace.html" linkindex="40">she never knew him</A>.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/06/dayintech_0605"><P>Ada was 15 when she met the Cambridge mathematics professor Babbage <A href="http://thegreatgeekmanual.com/blog/this-day-in-geek-history-june-5" linkindex="41">175 years ago</A> today. Babbage had already received funding from Parliament to build a "<A href="http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/05/exclusive-video.html" linkindex="42">difference engine</A>" that could do mathematical calculations. While that project was still unfinished, he conceived in 1834 a new and broader idea: an "analytical engine" that "could not only foresee but <A href="http://www.well.com/~adatoole/bio.htm" linkindex="43">could act on that foresight</A>."</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/06/dayintech_0605"><P>She also wrote a plan for the analytical engine to calculate <A href="http://www.bernoulli.org/" linkindex="44">Bernoulli numbers</A>. It's now considered the first computer program. The countess originated the <A href="http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/50th/October.html" linkindex="45">idea of a loop in a program</A>, which she likened to a "snake biting its tail."</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/B9F2171A-E09F-4A50-B127-208CDB9DE5D6/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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