Lovelace Vindication
by Richard Widows
Title
Lovelace Vindication
Artist
Richard Widows
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Digital Art - Computer-generated Images
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Lovelace Vindication is inspired by Ada, Countess of Lovelace, who collaborated nearly 200 years ago on development on an early mechanical computer and is considered by some as the world�s first computer programmer. Born as Augusta Ada Byron, Ada Lovelace was an accomplished mathematician and the only legitimate child of the famous poet Lord George Gordon Byron. While still a teenager in 1834, she began a collaboration with Charles Babbage on programmatic applications for his mechanical �Analytical Engine��arguably the world�s first general-purpose programmable computing machine (which, like modern computers, was designed to employ sequential commands in programs controlled by punched cards and incorporating branching, looping & recursive processing). A pioneering �computer program� by Ada Lovelace incorporated an algorithm she created to produce a complex sequence of special numbers. She described herself as an "Analyst & Metaphysician" & was virtually alone in believing that machines like Babbage�s could go beyond mere number crunching and were capable of performing more general tasks such as manipulating symbols and letters of the alphabet in accordance with programmatic rules (as modern computers do). A prescient Ada Lovelace quote: "We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard-loom weaves flowers and leaves."
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September 23rd, 2016
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