{"id":410,"date":"2010-03-24T15:59:07","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T19:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/pamphlet\/?p=410"},"modified":"2010-05-02T22:27:04","modified_gmt":"2010-05-03T02:27:04","slug":"happy-ada-lovelace-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/pamphlet\/2010\/03\/24\/happy-ada-lovelace-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Ada Lovelace Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n
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Fragment of Charles Babbage’s first difference engine, from the collection of the Harvard University Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments.<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

In honor of Ada Lovelace Day<\/a>, here is a fragment of Charles Babbage’s difference engine, from the Collection of Historical Instruments<\/a> at Harvard University<\/a>. Babbage went on to design a programmable computer, the Analytical Engine<\/a>, though it was never built. However, Augustus Ada King, Countess of Lovelace<\/span><\/a>, in her 1843 translation, annotation, and augmentation of a French description of the machine, provided an algorithm for computing the Bernoulli numbers<\/a>, which is arguably the first algorithm designed for computer implementation. She is consequently considered the world’s first computer programmer<\/a>.<\/p>\n

UPDATE (May 2, 2010): <\/strong>Bruce Beresford will apparently be directing a movie about Ada Lovelace entitled “The Enchantress of Numbers”, starring Billy Crudup<\/a> as Charles Babbage and perhaps Zooey Deschanel<\/a> (or not<\/a>) as the Countess herself. A way cooler computer science film, honestly, than a mo<\/a>vie\u00a0about Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Fragment of Charles Babbage’s first difference engine, from the collection of the Harvard University Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments. In honor of Ada Lovelace Day, here is a fragment of Charles Babbage’s difference engine, from the Collection of Historical Instruments at Harvard University. 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