Augusta Ada Lovelace Research Paper

Augusta Ada Byron, also known as Ada Lovelace, was born in 1815 in London, United Kingdom. She was the only child born from Annabella Milbanke and poet Lord Byron, all of Lord Byron’s other children were born out of wedlock to other women. They split up one month after Ada was born and Lord Byron passed away when Ada was eight years old. Her mother remained bitter and insisted on Ada to study mathematics to keep her from developing her fathers insanity. Mathematics was an unusual choice for a woman of that time. When Ada was 17, she first met Charles Babbage at a party and was enthusiastic when he demonstrated the small working section of the engine to her. In July of 1835, at age 19, Ada married William King the 8th Baron King. King was …show more content…
The Writer could write only what it was told to write. The Analytical Engine, on the other hand, could produce an answer that it had worked out for itself depending on its inputs and programming. It is reasonable to argue that it was not just Lovelace who had seen no evidence that machines could act as ‘originators’, but that those machines that had appeared to act, had been called frauds. One automaton had appeared to be capable of replicating human thought. It was called The Mechanical Turk, it was a machine that could not only play chess, but could also win against chess grandmasters. It toured Europe from 1770 until 1854 and won almost every match it ever played. The Mechanical Turk even won a match with Babbage, who then said that he was sure it was a trick, but he couldn’t see what kind of trick. About a decade or so before Lovelace published her translation and added notes on the Analytical Engine, the Turk was exposed as a hoax. It was not an automaton at all, but a machine driven by a human sitting in the box at its base. One would wonder if Lovelace’s prediction that the Analytical Engine could not ‘originate’ was as much based on a desire to set apart it from automaton, as it was a belief of hers that it was just not

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