GA2-240202501-AA1-EV03: crónica

AUTHOR

Jhonhaimer Patiño Quintero

INSTRUCTOR

Sebastián Pérez restrepo

TECHNOLOGY

software analysis and development

INSTITUTION

leather design and manufacturing center (SENA)

CITY AND OR MUNICIPALITY

Guarne / Antioquia

CARD NUMBER: 2808412

September/2023

Ada Lovelace

Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (London, 10 December 1815-id., 27

November 1852), registered at birth as Augusta Ada Byron and usually known as Ada

Lovelace, was a British mathematician and writer, most famous for her work on Charles

Babbage's general-purpose mechanical computer, the so-called analytical machine.

She was the first to recognize that the machine had applications beyond pure

computation and to have published what is now recognized as the first algorithm

intended to be processed by a machine, for which she is considered the first computer

programmer.

She deduced and foresaw the ability of computers to go beyond simple number

crunching.

She clearly distinguished between data and processing; this thinking was revolutionary

in her time. Ada aspired to create computer science, which she called the science of

operations. She realized the practical applications of the analytical machine and even

envisioned the possibility of digitizing music.

Also, the steps through which the machine could compute Bernoulli Numbers.

This algorithm for calculating Bernoulli numbers, a series of fractions with different

applications in mathematics, has been considered by many to be the first

program/algorithm in history. Consequently, many profiles of Ada Lovelace celebrate

her as the first programmer in history.

Ada's contribution to Computer Science was even more important: with a broader vision

than Babbage, she deduced and foresaw the ability of machines to go beyond simple

number crunching. Ada saw the practical applications of the machine, and rightly

believed that in the future it could even compose music and make graphics.

She was the first person to realize that the numbers stored inside the Analytical Engine

could represent other things beyond the magnitude of those numbers, i.e., the symbolic

nature of the machine's internal numerical representation. It also provided an early idea

of what software would be.

Babbage and Ada developed the great idea of separating operations and data from the

machinery, and that the operations could be encoded on cards that directed the

behavior of the machinery.

In his notes, Lovelace emphasized the difference between the analytical engine and

previous calculating machines, in particular its ability to be programmed to solve

problems of any complexity. He realized that the potential of the device extended far

beyond mere intensive numerical processing (number crunching).