Back in 1843, long before computers shaped the modern world, Ada Lovelace, a 27-year-old British mathematician, saw a future no one else did. She imagined a machine that didn’t just crunch numbers but ...
Lovelace after having imagined all this also set limits. She wrote that the engine couldn’t originate anything on its own ...
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What was the first computer actually able to do?
The first computer didn’t show up looking like anything we’d call a computer now. There was no screen, no keyboard, no mouse, and definitely no controller waiting beside it. Early computers were built ...
One of the only known photos of computer programmer Ada Lovelace (1815-1852). This daguerreotype portrait was taken by Antoine Claudet. The only known photographs of Ada Lovelace — who wrote the world ...
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