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Ada Lovelace, de son nom complet Augusta Ada King, comtesse de Lovelace, née Ada Byron le 10 décembre 1815 à Londres et morte le 27 novembre 1852 à Marylebone dans la même ville, est une pionnière de la science informatique. Elle est principalement connue pour avoir réalisé le premier véritable programme informatique, lors de son travail sur un ancêtre de l'ordinateur : la machine analytique de Charles Babbage.

Dans ses notes, on trouve en effet le premier programme publié, destiné à être exécuté par une machine, ce qui fait considérer Ada Lovelace comme « le premier programmeur du monde ». Elle a également entrevu et décrit certaines possibilités offertes par les calculateurs universels, allant bien au-delà du calcul numérique et de ce qu'imaginaient Babbage et ses contemporains,.

Elle est assez connue dans les pays anglo-saxons et en Allemagne, notamment dans les milieux féministes ; elle est moins connue en France, mais de nombreux développeurs connaissent le langage Ada, nommé en son honneur. Wikipedia  

✵ 10. décembre 1815 – 27. novembre 1852
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Ada Lovelace: Citations en anglais

“God has not given to us (in this state of existence) more than very limited powers of expression of one's ideas and feelings”

Contexte: Circumstances have been such, that I have lived almost entirely secluded for some time. Those who are much in earnest and with single minds devoted to any great object in life, must find this occasionally inevitable.... You will wonder at having heard nothing from me; but you have experience and candour enough to perceive and know that God has not given to us (in this state of existence) more than very limited powers of expression of one's ideas and feelings... I shall be very desirous of again seeing you. You know what that means from me, and that it is no form, but the simple expression and result of the respect and attraction I feel for a mind that ventures to read direct in God's own book, and not merely thro' man's translation of that same vast and mighty work.

In a letter to Andrew Crosse, as quoted in Eugen Kölbing's Englische Studien, Volume 19 https://archive.org/stream/englischestudien19leipuoft#page/157/mode/1up (1894), Leipzig; O.R. Reisland, "Byron's Daughter", p. 157.

“I do not regret the sufferings and peculiaties of my physical constitution. They have taught me, and continue to teach me, that which I think nothing else could have developed. It is a force and control put upon me by Providence which I must obey. And the effects of this continual disciple of facts are mighty. They tame the in the best sense of that word, and they fan into existence a pure, bright, holy, unselfish flame within that sheds cheerfulness and light on many.”

In a letter to Andrew Crosse, as quoted in Eugen Kölbing's Englische Studien, Volume 19 https://archive.org/stream/englischestudien19leipuoft#page/158/mode/1up (1894), Leipzig; O.R. Reisland, "Byron's Daughter", p. 158.
Contexte: With all my wiry power and strength, I am prone at times to bodily sufferings, connected chiefly with the digestive organs, of no common degree or king. I do not regret the sufferings and peculiaties of my physical constitution. They have taught me, and continue to teach me, that which I think nothing else could have developed. It is a force and control put upon me by Providence which I must obey. And the effects of this continual disciple of facts are mighty. They tame the in the best sense of that word, and they fan into existence a pure, bright, holy, unselfish flame within that sheds cheerfulness and light on many.
— Ever yours truly. "A. A. Lovelace."

“Our family are an alternate stratification of poetry and mathematics.”

In a letter to Andrew Crosse, as quoted in Eugen Kölbing's Englische Studien, Volume 19 https://archive.org/stream/englischestudien19leipuoft#page/156/mode/1up (1894), Leipzig; O.R. Reisland, "Byron's Daughter", p. 156.

“[...] engine is the material expression of any indefinite function of any degree of generality and complexity.”

As quoted by Rosen, Kenneth H. (2013). Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications, McGraw-Hill, ISBN 9780071315012. p.29.

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