• DocumentCode
    842498
  • Title

    Lovelace & Babbage and the creation of the 1843 ´notes´

  • Author

    Fuegi, John ; Francis, Jo

  • Author_Institution
    Maryland Inst. for Technol. in Humanities, MD, USA
  • Volume
    25
  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    2003
  • Firstpage
    16
  • Lastpage
    26
  • Abstract
    Augusta Ada Lovelace worked with Charles Babbage to create a description of Babbage\´s unbuilt invention, the analytical engine, a highly advanced mechanical calculator often considered a forerunner of the electronic calculating computers of the 20th century. Ada Lovelace\´s "notes," describing the analytical engine, published in Taylor\´s scientific memoirs in 1843, contained a ground-breaking description of the possibilities of programming the machine to go beyond number-crunching to "computing" in the wider sense in which we understand the term today. We expand on research first presented by the authors in their documentary film, to dream tomorrow.
  • Keywords
    analogue computers; calculating apparatus; digital computers; history; analytical engine; documentary film; electronic calculating computer; machine programming; mechanical calculator; Autobiographies; Books; Collaboration; Computer vision; Difference engines; Music; Pattern analysis;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Annals of the History of Computing, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1058-6180
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MAHC.2003.1253887
  • Filename
    1253887