Ada Lovelace
by Thomas Hasler
Her profile
She died 27th November 1852 London
Dad: George Gordon Bryon, 6th Baron Bryon
Mum: Anne Isabella MIlbanke, 11th Baroness Wenttworth
Children: Byron King-Noel, Viscount Ockham and 12th Baron Wentworth
Anne Blunt, 15th Baroness Wentworth
Ralph King-Milbanke, 2nd Earl of Lovelace
Ada Lovelace Day
Monday, Oct 12, 2015, 10:00 AM
Kiritimati, Line Islands, Kiribati
The Analytical Engine
The Analytical Engine was a hypothetical computer that she wrote code for which could calculate a series of numbers called Bernoulli Numbers. She also realised that it may be able to process other things such as music. I have quoted her below.
"The Analytical Engine might act upon other things besides number, were objects found whose mutual fundamental relations could be expressed by those of the abstract science of operations, and which should be also susceptible of adaptations to the action of the operating notation and mechanism of the engine...
Supposing, for instance, that the fundamental relations of pitched sounds in the science of harmony and of musical composition were susceptible of such expression and adaptations, the engine might compose elaborate and scientific pieces of music of any degree of complexity or extent."