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1 What’s the person full name and who were their parents?
Augusta Ada Byron, Lady of Lovelace Born to Anna Isabella Milbanke and George Gordon Noel Byron

2 What’s their date of birth and did they have siblings?
Augusta was born on December 15, 1815 She had two half-sisters, Allegra Byron and Elizabeth Medora Leigh She never met Allegra because she died at the age of 5

3 What’s their place of birth?
She was born in Piccadilly Terrace, London, England

4 Where did they receive their childhood education?
Ada was privately home schooled in mathematics and science Her last tutor Augustus De Morgan was an active member of London society, she was a member of the Bluestockings in her youth. Her tutors consisted of William Frend, William King, Mary Somerville, and Augustus De Morgan.

5 Where did they obtain further/advance education?
Ada did not receive any further education after her tutors

6 What’s their invention?
She is known as the first programmer, because she wrote a description of Charles Babbage’s early mechanical general-purpose computer, the analytical engine

7 How has this invention been used in our century for the betterment of our society?
Ada’s Bernoulli calculation program for specialized calculus operations achieves correct values in today’s computers

8 What technological Advances/Developments came about because of their invention?
The computer language Ada, created by the U.S. Defense Department, was named after Lovelace. The reference manual for the language was approved on December 10, 1980, Ada's birthday, and the Department of Defense Military Standard for the language, "MIL-STD-1815" was given the number of the year of her birth

9 Did someone help with the invention or who used the innovation process to enhance this development?
Ada wrote a program for the Analytical Engine on her own, but she heard a lecture about the difference engine designed by Charles Babbage Ada was inspired her to write her own program based on his lecture

10 Is this Inventor still alive and, if so, where are they located?
She died on November 27, 1852 She died at the age of 36 She died in London, England She was bled to death by her physicians, who were trying to treat her uterine cancer

11 Interesting Facts Ada was known as The Enchantress orf Numbers
She had a fascination of horses and horse racing Ada, Oklahoma is known for horse breeding Her image can be seen on the Microsoft product authenticity hologram stickers When she died she was a bankrupt laudanum addict By request she was buried next to the father she never knew at the Curch of St. Mary Magdalene in Hucknall, Nottingham

12 Works Cited Ada, Countess of Lovelace: Byron’s Legitimate Daughter. Doris Langley Moore. New York: Harper & Row, 1977. Ada, the Enchantress of Numbers. Betty A. Toole. Sausilito, Calif.: Strawberry Press, 1992. The Calculating Passion of Ada Byron. Joan Baum. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books/ The Shoe String Press, 1986.


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