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Adas Algorithm: How Lord Byrons Daughter Ada Lovelace Launched the Digital Age

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A biography by James Essinger tracing Ada Lovelace life and her 1843 notes on Charles Babbage Analytical Engine, including Note G, widely credited as the first published algorithm intended for execution by a machine.

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Author
James Essinger
Publisher
Melville House
Publication Year
2014
Source Type
Biography
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  • Engineers, 6 claims: 4 well-attested, 1 connected, 1 general references.
  • Sources, 5 claims: 5 well-attested.

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