Ada Lovelace and the Analytical Engine
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BGGDAda Lovelace was an English mathematician and writer in the 1800s who is considered the first computer programmer for her work on Charles Babbage's proposed mechanical general-purpose computer called the Analytical Engine. The Analytical Engine was designed by Charles Babbage to be a mechanical computer that could be programmed to compute arbitrary formulas and sequences, and Ada Lovelace wrote the first computer program for it, which was published alongside an article on the Analytical Engine.
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![WHO WAS ADA LOVELACE?
(UK 1852-1815)
Augusta Ada King, Countess of
Lovelace was an English
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Babbage's proposed mechanical
general-purpose computer, the
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Art and objects mentioned in this keynote:
The Cloud, Atelier Hapsitus (Dubai)
“Nimbus II” Berndhaut Smilde
Thinker Stools, Robin Howie
Fight the nothingness, David Shrigley (London)
sculp-it, antwerp
Mima Housing, Portugal
Add-A-Room, Sweden
Wiwawieg
Transparent Chair by Nendo
“Pura Vida” Phoenix Design
Trends mentioned in this keynote:
Speakeasy bars
“Turbulent teens”
Netstalgia
Space intensification
Machine to Machine (M2M) “The internet of things”
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"The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury"
"If you want others to be happy, practise compassion. If you want to be happy, practise compassion."
“True life is lived when tiny changes occur.”
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1) Conventional barrel vacuum cleaners can be difficult to maneuver, often colliding with obstacles or drifting in unintended directions.
2) Dyson engineers sought to apply the ball shape to a barrel vacuum cleaner to improve maneuverability, but faced challenges in integrating the internal components within a spherical shape.
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- 5. WHAT IS THE ANALYTICAL ENGINE? The Analytical Engine was a proposed mechanical general- purpose computer designed by English mathematician and computer pioneer Charles Babbage. It was first described in 1837 as the successor to Babbage's difference engine, a design for a simpler mechanical computer. [YT 13:26]
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- Lovelace applied her mathematical imagination to the plans for the Analytical Engine and Babbage’s vision of its potential. She sketched out the possibility of using the machine to perform all sorts of tasks beyond number crunching. In her inspired graphic history of Babbage and Lovelace, Sydney Padua describes Lovelace’s original contribution as one that is foundational to the field of computer science: “By manipulating symbols according to rules, any kind of information, not only numbers, can be operated on by automatic processes.” Lovelace had made the leap from calculation to computation. Padua describes the relationship between Babbage and Lovelace as complementary in computational terms. “The stubborn, rigid Babbage and mercurial, airy Lovelace embody the division between hardware and software.” Babbage built the mechanics and tinkered endlessly with the physical design; Lovelace was more interested in manipulating the machine’s basic functions using algorithmic formulas. They were, in essence, the first computer geeks.
- Source: Isaacson, W. (2014). The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution [Kindle iOS version]. Retrieved from Amazon.com