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+* Ada Lovelace Contribution Notes [2024-01-31 Wed 15:17]
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+- For a group project detailing an important person in Computer Science history
+- Based upon Stephen Wolfram's writing found [[https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2015/12/untangling-the-tale-of-ada-lovelace/][here]]
+
+** Analytical Engine while she was alive
+
+- Babbage never published serious account of Difference Engine or the Analytical Engine
+- Babbage talked about the Analytical Engine in Turin in 1840 and a man named Luigi Menabrea took
+  notes of his lecture
+- Menabrea went on to publish the paper in French in 1842
+- Ada saw the paper and chose to translate it to English and submit it to a British publication
+  in 1843
+- Ada took extensive notes of her own to add to the translation, the notes ended up being longer
+  than the translation itself
+- Ada exchanged /many/ letters with Babbage, she felt she was explaining Babbage's work, not
+  discovering something
+  - She only wanted to validate things with Babbage, got annoyed when Babbage tried to make his
+    own corrections to her manuscript
+  - She originally wasn't going to sign the translation or notes, she was convinced to do so by
+    William King (her husband)
+  - Signed it "AAL"
+  - Saw herself primarily as an interpreter of Babbage's work
+- Finished notes and translation at the end of July 1843
+- Wrote to Babbage asking for him to join in bringing the Analytical Engine to fruition with her
+  as a sort of CEO after writing her translation — she seemingly became wholly enraptured by the
+  machine
+- Unfortunately for Ada her health began failing her and the Analytical Engine had to be
+  sidelined
+- She died of cancer in November 27, 1852 at the age of 36
+
+** Rediscovery of Her Work After Death
+
+- In 1953 Bertram Bowden rediscovered Ada's work
+- Researching for his book /Faster than Thought/ about computer he came across Ada's
+  granddaughter who told him about Ada and showed him some of Ada's papers
+- As more research was done difference engines and mechanical computer's were researched and
+  inevitably so too was Babbage's Analytical Engine
+  - Remember, Babbage's Analytical Engine's primary source was Ada's translation and notes she
+    wrote about it
+
+** Why is Ada important?
+
+- Ada had some thoughts of what the Analytical Engine should be capable of — namely general
+  computation
+- She asked Babbage many times on how to achieve this general computation and distilled his
+  likely extremely detailed answers to a clear explanation of the operation of the Analytical
+  Machine
+- She actually published and simplified ideas about the Analytical Engine — something that
+  Babbage never did
+  - If you scream and nothing hears it, did you really scream?
+- Ada had a more developed abstract understanding of the Analytical Machine than Babbage
+  possessed due to her work in creating her notes and translation about the Analytical Engine
+- Due to this more developed abstract understanding, she had ideas of general/universal
+  computation which are the hallmark of modern day computers
+- Babbage only saw the Analytical Engine as a more efficient way of producing mathematical
+  tables and just so happened to design a universal computer
+- When writing about the Analytical Engine, Ada was trying to explain it as clearly as possible
+  - To do this she had to look at the machine in a more abstract sense and this resulted in her
+    seeing the machine as a gateway to universal computation
+- She was seemingly the first recorded person to have ideas of universal computation in regards
+  to machines
+  - This is the most important element, the entirety of the modern world are built on the back
+    of universal computation
+
+** Is it possible Ada could have discovered modern computing had her health not failed?
+
+- It's not far-fetched to say that if Ada had not died so early of cancer she likely would have
+  played a major role in a mechanical machine capable of universal computation
+- After creating the machine it's not a stretch at all that she might then create a new
+  machine (or perhaps even the first machine) as an electromechanical device and thus being
+  much closer to modern computers
+- She and had a friend working with electronic communications, Charles Wheatstone who was
+  involved with the creation of the electric telegraph
+- Ideas around Binary were beginning to show up around Ada's time, but it wasn't well known

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-* Lecture 1 Introduction (What is Computer Science)
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-[2024-01-22]
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-** CS 1011 Topics
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-- What is Computer Science
-- How Computers Work
-- Data And Resource Management
-- Networks and Internet
-- Security
-- Artificial Intelligence
-- Diversity and Social Impact
- - Might not get to this
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-** Group Project
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-- Sign up for a Group under the =People= tab in Canvas