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Oscar's Videos
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Oscar Video 1
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- Ada Lovelace was born on December 10th, 1815. Her father was the romantic poet Lord Byron and her mother was Anne Isabella Milbanke.
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- 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.
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Oscar Video 9
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- Despite the wealth and privilege Ada's parents held, both did not fit the typical stereotypes associated with aristocrats of the era and Ada, much like her parents, would not wholly conform to societies' expectations either.
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- However, while privileged and wealthy, Ada's parents did not fit the stereotypes of the era, nor was her life to follow convention.
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Oscar Video 10
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- Ada's mother, Anne Isabella, better known as Annabella, was intellectually gifted and had received an education that included science and mathematics which was abnormal for women at the time.
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- 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.
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Oscar Video 11
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- As a consequence of her sharp mind paired with her family wealth, Annabella was a particularly appealing target for the romantic attentions of the poet Lord Byron and the two would eventually join in marriage.
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- 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.”
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Oscar Video 12
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- However, their marriage was not one of like minds or shared values, and whether intentional or not, the union of Annabella and Byron resulted in the birth of Ada Lovelace.
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- 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.
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Oscar Video 4
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- Their marriage soon fell apart when Ada was but 5 weeks old. Following the separation, Ada's mother took charge of raising her in an environment counter to the conventions of the day.
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- 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.
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Oscar Video 8
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- To give an inkling of context, Ada Lovelace, as a woman in the 19th century, would've been expected to undergo a conventional "feminine" education.
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- Ada Lovelace, as a daughter of the 19th century, was certainly born into privilege and a conventional “feminine” education would have been her birthright.
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Oscar Video 2
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- The aim of education for young female aristocrats in the 18th and 19th centuries was decidedly not to grant them well-rounded understandings; instead, education for young women was intended to make them as marriageable as possible.
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- 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.
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Oscar Video 3
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- Therefore, young ladies were typically schooled at home, by governesses or carefully selected tutors, in subjects that were believed to make these young women more enticing to young men, such as languages, literature, and music.
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- Therefore, young women were typically schooled at home, by governesses or carefully selected tutors, in subjects such as languages, literature, and music.
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Oscar Video 5
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- Against tradition, Ada was schooled rigorously in mathematics and science, on the basis of her mother's belief that this would spare her from the supposed madness of Ada's father.
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- 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.
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Oscar Video 6
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- Ada possessed great intellectual prowess and talent in language and numeracy. Unfortunately, due to the time period, she was unable to attend the then male-dominated universities.
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- Ada possessed natural talents for language and numeracy but as a young woman of her time, she was excluded from attending university.
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Oscar Video 7
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- Instead of university, Ada received further instruction from a variety of talented individuals like Mary Somerville, Augustus de Morgan and, most notably, the inventor of the "Analytical Engine" — Charles Babbage.
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- 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.
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Price's Videos
Analytical Engine while she was alive
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Price Video 1
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- Charles Babbage never published a serious account of his "Analytical Engine" nor his Difference Engine. Without Ada's notes, the machines almost certainly would have been lost to time.
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- Babbage never published serious account of Difference Engine or the Analytical Engine
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Price Video 2
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- Babbage gave his only lecture on the Analytical Engine in Turin in 1840 where a man named Lugui Menabrea took notes. He would later publish his notes as a paper in French in 1842.
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- 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
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Price Video 3
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- Ada found Menabrea's paper and chose to translate it to English and submit it to a British publication in 1843. She added extensive notes of her own which ended up being longer than the translation itself.
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- 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
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Price Video 4
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- Ada was friends with Babbage and she exchanged many letters with him to better understand the Analytical Engine. She saw herself as merely an expositor of Babbbage's work, not the discoverer.
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- 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
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Price Video 5
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- Ada finished her notes and the translation in July 1843. Originally, she had no intention of signing the publication, but was convinced to do so by her husband William King. She signed it with her initials, "AAL".
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- 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
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Price Video 6
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- After the publication, she wrote to Babbage with a request: join her in bringing the Analytical Engine to fruition with her as a sort of CEO and him as the engineer. She had become enraptured by the machine.
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- 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
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Price Video 7
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- Unfortunately Ada would never see the Analytical Machine completed, her health began failing her and no amount of treatment improved her condition. She later died of cancer on November 27th, 1852 only aged 36.
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- 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
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Rediscovery of Her Work After Death
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Price Video 8
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- Although the machine was never built, her work was not lost. In 1953 Bertram Bowden rediscovered Ada's work. He was conducting research for a book when he came across Ada's granddaughter who showed him some of Ada's papers.
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- 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
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Price Video 9
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- In the course of computer research it was inevitable that difference engines became topics of research and with it Babbage's Analytical Engine. Remember, Ada's translation and notes were the primary source for the Analytical Engine.
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- 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
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Why is Ada important?
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Price Video 10
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- Ada developed thoughts of universal computation around the Analytical Engine. She asked Babbage many times how to achieve this and distilled his overly detailed answers into clear explanations on the operation of the machine.
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- 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
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Price Video 11
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- Unlike Babbage, she actually published and simplified ideas about the Analytical Engine. If you scream and nothing hears it, did you really scream? Same goes for publishing. If you don't leave a record, did your invention actually exist?
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- 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?
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- Price Videos 12
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- Ada developed a more abstract understanding of the Analytical Machine than even Babbage, the inventor, as a result of her publication on the machine in 1843.
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- 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
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Price Videos 13
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- Extending from her more developed understanding of the machine, she began to have the first recorded ideas of universal computation which is the very foundation of modern computing.
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- Due to this more developed abstract understanding, she had ideas of general/universal computation which are the hallmark of modern day computers
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Price Video 14
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- Babbage, with his more limited insight, merely saw the Analytical Engine as a more efficient way of producing mathematical tables and by accident just so happened to design a universal computer.
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- Babbage only saw the Analytical Engine as a more efficient way of producing mathematical tables and just so happened to design a universal computer
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Price Video 15
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- When writing about the Analytical Engine, Ada was trying to explain it as clearly as possible which led to her to a more abstract approach. This abstraction led her to ideas of universal computation.
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- 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
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Price Video 16
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- She was seemingly the first recorded person to have ideas of universal computation in regards to machines
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Price Video 17
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- 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?
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Price Video 21
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- It's not too far-fetched that if Ada had not died so early, she likely would have created the Analytical Engine with Babbage achieving universal computation.
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- 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
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Price Video 18
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- Furthermore, it's also not a stretch that she might then go on to create a second machine that would be electromechanical in nature, bringing it a step closer to modern computers.
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- 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
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Price Video 20
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- She was a friend of Charles Wheatstone, who was deeply involved with the creation of the electric telegraph. He may have been able to point her towards an electromechanical design.
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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
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Price Video 19
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- The only hold up is binary. Binary began to appear in Ada's time, but it was unknown for the most part. However, Leibniz had already done work on binary arithmetic a century prior so the idea wasn't completely novel.
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- Ideas around Binary were beginning to show up around Ada's time, but it wasn't well known
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