Ada Lovelace - Wonderful Woman No. 51

Ada Lovelace - 1815-1852
British Mathematician, Writer and Engineer

Added to the album by a wonderful man called Lukas

Geeky, but worth inclusion.
Lukas

Definitely worth inclusion, Ada Lovelace was a true visionary, widely revered as the world's first computer programmer.

With the inventor, Charles Babbage, Ada is credited with designing the first mechanical computer. The Analytical Engine was the idea of a machine which could analytically process information and calculate. Ada wrote much about the envisaged steam driven piece of machinery, including the first algorithm, a step-by-step procedure for calculations.

A skilled mathematician, Babbage called her the Enchantress of Numbers. She wrote many papers on number analysis and processing. In her notes she describes an algorithm for the analytical engine to compute Bernoulli numbers. Ada's notes are believed to be the original descriptions of software and computers.

Forget this world and all its troubles and if
possible its multitudinous Charlatans – every thing
in short but the Enchantress of Numbers
Charles Babbage

In the United States, Ada is the name of the computer language used by the military and in the United Kingdom, an award in her name is given by the British Computer Society to outstanding female science and engineering students. Indeed, since 2009 Ada Lovelace Day has been created to celebrate women in the field.

Would I be tapping the keys on my laptop were it not for Ada Lovelace? Possibly not.

Intelligence is most wonderful, as is vision and creativity... for those reasons, Ada is a most welcome addition, geeky or not.

I never am really satisfied that I understand anything; because, understand it well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand about the many connections and relations which occur to me, how the matter in question was first thought of or arrived at.
Ada Lovelace