cs-1011: update assignment 1

Spring-2023/CS-1011/Assignment-1/Notes.org

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-* Ada Lovelace Contribution Notes [2024-01-31 Wed 15:17]
+* Price's Notes
 
+- Responsible for researching =Most Important Contributions to Computer Science=
 - 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]]
 
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 - 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
+
+* Oscar's Notes
+
+- Responsible for researching =Personal Life=
+** Notes
+
+Ada Lovelace (1815--1852), the Victorian-era mathematician daughter of the Romantic poet Lord
+Byron. Ada Lovelace had a privileged existence but lived in a world where girls were limited in the
+subjects they were taught, where young women were excluded from universities and where gender
+stereotypes were rigidly enforced.
+
+The aim of education for young women born into the aristocracy in the 17th and 18th centuries was to
+make them as marriageable as possible. Therefore, young women were typically schooled at home, by
+governesses or carefully selected tutors, in subjects such as languages, literature, and music.
+
+Following the separation of her parents shortly after her birth, Ada was raised by her mother in an
+environment that ran counter to the conventions of the day. Against tradition, Ada was schooled
+rigorously in mathematics and science, on the basis of her mother's belief that this would protect
+or insulate her against the madness Annabella believed to possess Ada's father, who she believed
+(perhaps correctly) to be a dissolute and depraved individual as well as a romantic literary genius.
+
+Ada possessed natural talents for language and numeracy but as a young woman of her time, she was
+excluded from attending university. Instead she received further education and tutoring from a
+variety of individuals, such as Mary Somerville, Augustus de Morgan and, perhaps most notably, the
+inventor of the world's first theoretical computer --- the “Analytical Engine --- Charles Babbage.
+
+Ada Lovelace, as a daughter of the 19th century, was certainly born into privilege and a
+conventional “feminine” education would have been her birthright. However, while privileged and
+wealthy, Ada's parents did not fit the stereotypes of the era, nor was her life to follow
+convention. Ada's mother, Anne Isabella, known as Annabella, was intellectually gifted and had
+received, unusually for a young woman of the time, an education that included science and
+mathematics. As a consequence of her sharp mind (paired, presumably with her family wealth),
+Annabella was a particularly appealing target for the romantic attentions of the poet Byron, who
+named her his “Princess of the Parallelograms.” However, this was not a marriage of like minds or
+shared values, and whether intended or unintended, a consequence of the union of Annabella and Byron
+was the arrival of Ada Lovelace.
+
+* Sean's Notes
+
+- Responsible for reasearching =Career & Research=
+- Price covered this base maybe a bit too well, it was decided that Price's notes covered this
+  well enough that it would be redundant for Sean to make his own.
+- Sean still contributed, he generated the video content and spent $70 of his own hard earned
+  money to do so.

Spring-2023/CS-1011/Assignment-1/README.org

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+* Assignment 1 Group Project
+
+
+** Members
+
+- Sean West
+  - Email: [[mailto:sean.west@my.utsa.edu][sean.west@my.utsa.edu]]
+- Price Hiller
+  - Email: [[mailto:price.hiller@my.utsa.edu][price.hiller@my.utsa.edu]] or [[mailto:price@orion-technologies.io][price@orion-technologies.io]]
+- John O Olivares (Preferred name Oscar)
+  - Email: [[mailto:john.olivares@my.utsa.edu][john.olivares@my.utsa.edu]]
+
+** Prominent Figure
+
+- We chose *Ada Lovelace*
+
+** Notes
+
+Notes can be found [[file:./Notes.org][here]].

Spring-2023/CS-1011/Assignment-1/Video/Assets/Media/README.org

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+* Video Files
+
+Videos were created by [[file:../../../README.org::*Members][Sean West]] using generative AI
+
+** Oscar's Video Prompts
+
+- Video 1
+  - Ada Lovelace (1815--1852), the Victorian-era mathematician daughter of
+    the Romantic poet Lord Byron. Ada Lovelace had a privileged existence
+    but lived in a world where girls were limited in the subjects they were
+    taught, where young women were excluded from universities and where
+    gender stereotypes were rigidly enforced.
+
+- Video 2
+
+  - The aim of education for young women born into the aristocracy in the
+    17th and 18th centuries was to make them as marriageable as possible.
+
+- Video 3
+
+  - Therefore, young women were typically schooled at home, by governesses
+    or carefully selected tutors, in subjects such as languages, literature,
+    and music.
+
+- Video 4
+
+  - Following the separation of her parents shortly after her birth, Ada was
+    raised by her mother in an environment that ran counter to the
+    conventions of the day.
+
+- Video 5
+
+  - Against tradition, Ada was schooled rigorously in mathematics and
+    science, on the basis of her mother's belief that this would protect or
+    insulate her against the madness Annabella believed to possess Ada's
+    father, who she believed (perhaps correctly) to be a dissolute and
+    depraved individual as well as a romantic literary genius.
+
+- Video 6
+
+  - Ada possessed natural talents for language and numeracy but as a young
+    woman of her time, she was excluded from attending university.
+
+- Video 7
+
+  - Instead she received further education and tutoring from a variety of
+    individuals, such as Mary Somerville, Augustus de Morgan and, perhaps
+    most notably, the inventor of the world's first theoretical computer ---
+    the “Analytical Engine --- Charles Babbage.
+
+- Video 8
+
+  - Ada Lovelace, as a daughter of the 19th century, was certainly born into
+    privilege and a conventional “feminine” education would have been her
+    birthright.
+
+- Video 9
+
+  - However, while privileged and wealthy, Ada's parents did not fit the
+    stereotypes of the era, nor was her life to follow convention.
+
+- Video 10
+
+  - Ada's mother, Anne Isabella, known as Annabella, was intellectually
+    gifted and had received, unusually for a young woman of the time, an
+    education that included science and mathematics.
+
+- Video 11
+
+  - As a consequence of her sharp mind (paired, presumably with her family
+    wealth), Annabella was a particularly appealing target for the romantic
+    attentions of the poet Byron, who named her his “Princess of the
+    Parallelograms.”
+
+- Video 12
+
+  - However, this was not a marriage of like minds or shared values, and
+    whether intended or unintended, a consequence of the union of Annabella
+    and Byron was the arrival of Ada Lovelace.
+
+** Price's Video Prompts
+
+
+*** Analytical Engine while she was alive
+
+- Video 1
+
+  - Babbage never published serious account of Difference Engine or the
+    Analytical Engine
+
+- Video 2
+
+  - 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
+
+- Video 3
+
+  - 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
+
+- Video 4
+
+  - 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
+
+- Video 5
+
+  - 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
+
+- Video 6
+
+  - 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
+
+- Video 7
+
+  - 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
+
+:PROPERTIES:
+:CUSTOM_ID: rediscovery-of-her-work-after-death
+:END:
+- Video 8
+
+  - 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
+
+- Video 9
+
+  - 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?
+
+:PROPERTIES:
+:CUSTOM_ID: why-is-ada-important
+:END:
+- Video 10
+
+  - 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
+
+- Video 11
+
+  - 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?
+
+- Videos 12 & 13
+
+  - 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
+
+- Video 14
+
+  - Babbage only saw the Analytical Engine as a more efficient way of
+    producing mathematical tables and just so happened to design a
+    universal computer
+
+- Video 15
+
+  - 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
+
+- Video 16
+
+  - She was seemingly the first recorded person to have ideas of
+    universal computation in regards to machines
+
+- Video 17
+
+  - 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?
+
+- Video 21
+
+  - 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
+
+- Video 18
+
+  - 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
+
+- Video 20
+
+  - She and had a friend working with electronic communications, Charles
+    Wheatstone who was involved with the creation of the electric
+    telegraph
+
+- Video 19
+
+  - Ideas around Binary were beginning to show up around Ada's time, but
+    it wasn't well known

Spring-2023/CS-1011/TODO.org

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