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Month: December 2015

Ada Lovelace

Birth Day: Augusta Ada, Countess of Lovelace

Posted on December 14, 2015December 14, 2015 by drett

Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (née Byron; 10 December 1815 – 27 November 1852) was a British mathematician and writer, chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage’s early mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine. Her notes on the engine include what is recognised as the first algorithm intended to be carried out by[…]

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Byron to Coleridge: Pardon my Plagiarism

Posted on December 14, 2015January 6, 2016 by drett

I must here acknowledge a close, though unintentional, resemblance in these twelve lines to a passage in an unpublished poem of Mr Coleridge, called “Christabel.” It was not till after these lines were written that I heard that wild and singularly original and beautiful poem recited: and the MS. of that production I never saw[…]

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