Monday 4 April 2011

Introduction

Charles Babbage (1791-1871)
Creator of the Analytical Engine- the first general-purpose digital computer (1833) The Analytical Engine was not built until 1943 ( in the form of the Harvard Mark I)

The Analytical Engine

A Programmable, mechanical, digital machine Could carryout any calculation could make decisions based upon the results of the previous calculation components: Input, memory, processor, output.

Ada, Countess of Lovelace (1815-52)
Babbage: the father of computing
Ada: the mother
Wrote a program for computing the Bernoulli's sequence on the Analytical Engine world's 1st computer program
Ada:  A programming language specifically designed by the Us Dept of Defense for developing military applications was named Ada to honor her contributions towards computing.





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