Most people in the past did not manage to live longer than 50. My country has a national figure, basically a hero. He was leader of national revival, orginazer of volunteer campaigns, politician, poet, journalist, publisher, teacher, philosopher, linguist and member of the Hungarian Parliament and still managed only to live only for 40 years. I still don´t understand how he was able to be all that (almost) at once in roughly 25 years (he began being involved in politics when he was 16)
@@12jswilson How about Évariste Galois? He died at 21. Kind of his fault though. He died in a duel. He stayed up all the previous night writing out what is known today as Galois theory.
Not surprised a woman made the link between weaving and coding since women of that time were expected to know how to weave/knit/crochet/embroider intricate patterns. As a fellow female mathematician, coder, and knitter/crocheter, I have always been interested in Ada Lovelace and her contributions to my professions.
People having a vagina or a penis doesn't interest me in the slightest. I think I passed that phase when I left kindergarten. It is awesome what Ada achieved and that we can learn about it through the wonders of a medium she contributed to significantly.
The connection between weaving and coding reminds me of how in WWII, the airplane factories tried to appeal to women who weren't confident about factory work or were unsure if they could even build planes, by comparing assembling airplane fuselages to sewing. (Think about it, in both clothing construction and airplane construction, you take a flat material, you cut shapes out of it, you line the shapes up, you secure them together, and you now have a 3D object. Obviously I've oversimplified both making clothes or airplanes, but that's what the airplane factories would tell women to convince them that they could build planes.)
Ada Lovelace published her first algorithm for Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine in 1842. Babbage wrote 2 dozen unpublished programs for his machine between 1837 and 1840. He was evidently the inventor of the mechanical computer and the first programmer. However, he saw it purely as a way to calculate numbers. Lovelace’s brilliance was to see that numbers could stand as symbols for other things: eg notes in music. This let computing go from mathematics to general computing, to create words, pictures or other abstract concepts. Lovelace expanded on and improved Babbage’s ideas.
These bios you do, it's almost like you're pulling your subjects out of my brain. I've been fascinated by Ada Lovelace since I was a kid. Not because I know the first thing about computer programing but because, like Marie Curie and Caroline Herschel, she knew her worth and wasn't afraid to show it. No matter what many men of the time had to say about it. Great job as always guys. Keep it up.
@@DMWayne-ke7flOne doesn't have to be a feminist to appreciate their history and work. Many women's credit was either taken away or ignored at that time. Not only those who were into science, but also skilful painters. It wasn't easy to go against the norms of that time, it required both brilliancy and guts. High IQ presenting in both males and females seems to be a tough concept for some to accept, but it needs to be done. Otherwise, we can never understand the full scope of history and human potential. Hopefully you have grown in these past two years friend.
I've done research before on Ada Lovelace, and honestly she is an inspiration for me. I'm a Comp Sci major now and almost everyone in my major is a guy and it isn't uncommon for me to be the only girl in a class. I don't mind that too much, but it makes me feel even better to know that I'm carrying forward the legacy of great female programmers like Ada and the women who helped us reach the moon.
I just started studying electrical engineering... Only woman in my class of 28. While the guys have been nothing but awesome, I do wish there would be more women in my class. Sometimes it feels like a certain amount of pressure. Like, I have to succeed and be good, because in a way, I represent women in this field. Does that make sense to you?
The next futuristic dystopian movie should take this idea up and make it happen. A Lovelace steampunk flying pony a la madmax or blade runner! 🤣 I want this!
I'd like to imagine that this fictional version of Ada then invented the modern microphone just so she could drop it before throwing up the double devil horns as she bombed out of the building.
"Girls aren't into science, they like feminine things like ponies and butterflies..." these are things they said to girls in the 17th to 18th century, I have never heard any man say this in the 21st century, let's be fair, no unnecessary feminism.
You should do one on Emilie DeChatelet. She was the physicist, mathmetician and philosopher who championed Newton's Principia. She also annotated and translated his book into french which is still used today in France. And she had an affair and children with Rousseau.
And the notion that the only reason women have never invented anything of any significance is due to this hilariously stupid Feminist idea that it was all because women were 'oppressed' is ludicrous Women had far more time and energy to invent than most men did throughout history and looking back over the last 60 years since feminism, women have had complete freedom to do whatever they please, yet they still have achieved nothing Much of the technology fields we have today were also created well after the advent of feminism, so again no excuse and nothing more than a myth
@Jeremy Brookes _I only provided sources_ You didn't provide any sources, if you tried to link anything I already told you that this channel is shadow banning comments with links- not paying attention is how you end up ignorant which you obviously are It's not my 'belief' that Ada Lovelace is nothing and women cannot invent or build anything, those are hard facts. Her supposed original 'ideas' were never and have never even been put to the test to see if they even work If there was anyone from that era who contributed to the groundwork of the modern computer it was *George Boole* who created the backbone of today's digital computation and *Alan Turing* devised the world's first mathematical model for a universal digital computer both of whom never even heard of Ava Lovelace. I suggest you google both before you go around making yourself sound even more moronic People with integrity and character like me despise *fraud* regardless of who is committing it and exposing fraud has nothing to do with muslim extremism, the only 'extremism' here is your extreme ignorance & inability to even know what is going on. Pfft 'Saudi Arabia' Only weak willed, spineless cowards with no character or morals like you push fraud and/or promote feminist fraud, teaching children lies - what kind of creeps would teach children lies? You're really creepy and so are the people promoting this trash
There's no "probably" involved. Alan Turing definitely deserves an episode. In my opinion far more than the superb marketer who pretended he was a techo-genius, Steve Jobs.
@@jeffbridges5312+ You say that women of the past had far more time and energy to invent things, yet you fail to mention that women of the past had a lesser education, and were not encouraged to think outside the kitchen and marriage bed.
Curious fact: the young Lord Byron famously gave a speech in the House of Lords, one of the greatest orations ever heard in that chamber, in defence of Luddites who had been sentenced to death for machine breaking. It's curious then that his daughter would go on to be inspired by some of the machines they were smashing.
Wow, I had no idea. So Shakespeare was 1/2 African & 1/2 Taiwanese? The I wonder if the pictures I’ve seen of him are even of him then. Because those pictures don’t show him looking either African or Taiwanese.
You've got to admit a steam powered horse plane thing no matter how impractical, nay impossible, would be pretty badass. Great video as always Biographics crew and Simon. Thanks for making them. *:-)*
As a college computing instructor, I always made a point of talking about Ada encourage my female students. Now you need to follow up with the "Amazing" Grace Hopper who I had the great fortune to meet while I was a doctoral student.
A programmer is someone who accually worked on a computer, that programmed it. She didnt own a computer or make one. None of the work that she did has been used in accual programming. we didnt base any of our work to get to the Internet on her. NONE of our advancement came from her work
Matrim Helmsgaard: if it is true, as stated in the video, that Turing was influenced by Ada's writings in his design of the "Bombe", then your claim is invalid.
I live close to her resting place and as a fellow nerd, I try and visit to pay my respects to Ada when I can. Great video, just discovered the channel and now subbed :D.
@@ingriddubbel8468 I don't know... it's a fairly accurate comment about the time. Women in aristocratic circles were ornaments for wealthy high class "gentlemen". That she broke the mold and became more than she was supposed to be is part of her legacy!
I said something about one known player from early 1800's; people come crying about peasant men and how Lovelace was more entitled than them. Well ok. So sorry for hurting your feelings. I don't deliberately hit down on fragile people.
I like the idea that her mother discouraged her from obvious artistic pursuits for fear she'd become her father so instead she latched onto something else that tickled her fancy anyways because you can't stop genius
As a direct descendant of her it is a bitter story but as a cancer survivor myself I am very proud to see how a ancestor of mine played a big role in saving millions of lives including my own
One of my university degree majors English. Surprised how many famous authors, poets loose morally. Many lovers, some never marrying (because bad to do so), were illegitimate fathers, bisexuals. People in arts for at least 300 years often really messed up people who wrecked havoc on partners/spouses/children. Many depressed and suicidal. So many whom they touched also depressed, suicidal.They thought living the life without any ties, only to become despondent.
Interesting, most interesting video ever! And I thought I knew everything about Ada Lovelace, or at least a fair amount! I learned a lot about this woman today! Thank you, Simon and your team!
Simon! This was awesome! I've never heard of Ada, but I'd heard of ADA language. Thank you for the lesson; I learn cool, awesome and tragic stuff from you all the time. Rock on, Dude!
Here I am watching a video on the computer programmer who wrote programs before computers existed, and I'm thinking "gee I wonder if you guys also covered Emmy Noether", and I'll be damned - you did. How wonderful!
As a huuuuuuuuge Byron fan, I know Ada well. The princess of the parallelogram, was a bit mad herself in a way, but her and Lord Byron were just not meant to be after all, he married her to make rumours about him and his sister stop. But they created a really amazing woman. In a way, she was the mix of her parents, the analytical mind of her mother, but the creativity of her father . Btw the IT department of the Otto-von-Guericke University in Magdeburg is named after Ada Lovelace.
If you are interested in Alan Turing, and Admiral Grace Hopper, both pioneers in computer science, there is a fair amount about them hosted on TH-cam. This biographic episode is one I requested, and I would not mind seeing episodes on the others as well. One of my favorites about Admiral Hopper though was a clip of "Late Night with David Letterman" in which you get to see her and get a sense of her personality. Something rare in historical figures until the advent of video recording.
Oh wow! I remember seeing her but in a cartoon as a child. It was called: Cyberchase. I was actually shocked in the cartoon that she knew a lot about computers. Shocked yet happy because I want to learn more about numbers as she did.
Well what about Adm Grace Hopper? The "Godmother" of modern programming? You can't talk about the history of computer programming and not mention Adm. "Amazing" Grace Hopper!
She appeared, if visible, on the Introducing Microsoft Windows 95 book along with the text “AUGUSTA ADA BYRON - PIONEER IN COMPUTER PROGRAMMING” The Georgia governor named the town, Augusta, after her which a team of golf players formed the AUGUSTA NATIONAL GOLF CLUB (better known as A.N.G.C.) and started The Masters golf tournament
In the 1990s I worked for a company at 12 St. James Square, London - the home of Ada, Countess of Lovelace. The building has a Blue Plaque to commemorate her residence. Our IT Director was very proud of the building's heritage and I worked at the upper floor where the bedrooms would have been. On quiet evenings in winter, we could hear the faint sound of Ada's ghost moving around and clinking her gin bottles.
Yet another well researched and poignant biography. This channel continues to be one of my favorites. Your channel always continues to produce high quality work. Please, keep up the excellent work.
If physical strength was the reason for cerebral ability then human beings would have been more like lions rather than tool wielding fruit eating omnivores.
I agree she is amazing but not in a good way, It is amazing that a woman who contributed nothing at all to anything to do with computing in any way is being touted as the first computer programmer :)
Great video! I love your biographics, they're thorough and well done! I would love if you did more on important people in technology, particularly if you would do one on Grace Hopper
To say women is incapable is unfashionable in today's standard, but statistically that's still true, no matter how many feminists I will offend by saying that.
Awesome, Simon! How about Hedy Lamarr and, on a more contemporary computer personality, Sophie Wilson - the person who devised the instruction set for the most popular processor ever made.
This is great stuff. I'm a Computer Engineer, so I'd naturally heard of all the pioneering intellectuals in this, very interesting video, but I've not read 'Faster Than Thought A Symposium on Digital Computing Machines' by Bowden, B. V. so on the strength of this vid, I've bought a copy. Thanks for whatever I learn form reading it!
Trim Uprising has a lot of characters who are named after people that contributed to the development of the computer and the internet itself, which I actually found very interesting.
A fascinating subject and a good introduction , made even more so if one has developed speed listening to cope with the speed of the narrator's delivery...even for native English speakers ;->
Joseph Jacquard was the first programmer with his loom that produced intricate weavings of patterns and pictures with punch cards. Ada was on the right track but Joseph's Jacquard put pixels on fabric before we had a screen to put it on. Machine code ones and zeros.
Why did I never hear of Ada, the ladies depicted in Hidden Figures, and the woman who finished the Brooklyn bridge?? 30 seconds were barely dedicated to discussing the contributions of Madame Curie. What a loss to have denied this to so many of us who would have felt inclined to explore the sciences and STEM sparked by such role models!!
While definitely late in this...the US (and probably other countries at the time) had a pneumatic computer used on military aircraft to have an EMP proof computer. In addition growing out of the early mechanical computers were mechanical adding (and subtraction) machines as well as the mechanical cash registers. While these were definitely not computers they were mechanical calculators.
Can you please, since we're on the topic of pioneers, create an episode about Konrad Zuse? His machines are, together with the ENIAC, often considered among the first Computers
All she did was copy the work of someone else: www.juliansanchez.com/2012/10/16/much-ada-about-nothing/ .. and even that 'work' had nothing to do with the development of the modern computer. Women are so desperate for some kind female 'genius' that sadly the only thing they invent are.. female inventors. Face it, invention, science, innovation, all the (legitimate) academic fields of study _themselves_ are not just 'dominated' by men & all invented by men, they ARE the very manifestation of the masculine. Relax, ladies- it's OK, you're not men so stop trying to imitate men.
@@user-ny1wo1vp9r It's so funny hearing women project their own insecurities onto men. No man in the history of the human race has ever felt 'threatened' by a woman either physically or mentally. Men invent everything, create it all, build it all & maintain it all in the past & right now. Women are simply too weak both mentally & physically because that's who nature designed you. Stop trying to be a man, it's repulsive. The only area of concern is for that of the fraud being perpetuated here on the low IQ, feelings based thinking & mentally lazy like yourself. If you're comfortable with fraud then you're most likely a fraud yourself. There are dozens of sources debunking the Ada Lovelace fraud, one that does it in a video is called *Equal Contribution:* at 9:25 All of the men who contributed to the invention of the modern computer had never heard of her and none of her supposed 'theories' were ever tested, not to mention she was a fraud herself having copied all of her 'work' from a man. The entire video debunks all of the feminist frauds & myths for the last 100 years and more and sets the record straight- the entire video is an hour and twenty minutes long, so as a female having the attention span & IQ of a gnat I seriously doubt you could make it all the way through, but a well researched and extremely educational video for anyone else reading this
So. How many Fyre Festival's "taking one for the team" should I do around Hollywood so we get a miniseries covering Ada and Lord Byron's lives? To be starred by Saoirse Ronan (They even looked alike) and Robert Pattinson?
I hadn't known that she died at 36 years old. We can only imagine what she could have accomplished had she lived longer.
Most people in the past did not manage to live longer than 50. My country has a national figure, basically a hero. He was leader of national revival, orginazer of volunteer campaigns, politician, poet, journalist, publisher, teacher, philosopher, linguist and member of the Hungarian Parliament and still managed only to live only for 40 years.
I still don´t understand how he was able to be all that (almost) at once in roughly 25 years (he began being involved in politics when he was 16)
A lot of brilliant mathematicians have died young. Gauss and Georg Cantor jump to mind.
@@12jswilson How about Évariste Galois? He died at 21. Kind of his fault though. He died in a duel. He stayed up all the previous night writing out what is known today as Galois theory.
Hiromi Sugiyama Thats... that’s just amazing
@@SugiyamaHiromin Karl I?
Not surprised a woman made the link between weaving and coding since women of that time were expected to know how to weave/knit/crochet/embroider intricate patterns. As a fellow female mathematician, coder, and knitter/crocheter, I have always been interested in Ada Lovelace and her contributions to my professions.
People having a vagina or a penis doesn't interest me in the slightest. I think I passed that phase when I left kindergarten. It is awesome what Ada achieved and that we can learn about it through the wonders of a medium she contributed to significantly.
@@jccusell what does your bisexuality have to do with anything? typical SJW pushing your crap
I SUCK at math! BAD! Maybe that is why I have a hard time with computers... I'm also unable to play musical instruments, people say music is math...
The connection between weaving and coding reminds me of how in WWII, the airplane factories tried to appeal to women who weren't confident about factory work or were unsure if they could even build planes, by comparing assembling airplane fuselages to sewing. (Think about it, in both clothing construction and airplane construction, you take a flat material, you cut shapes out of it, you line the shapes up, you secure them together, and you now have a 3D object. Obviously I've oversimplified both making clothes or airplanes, but that's what the airplane factories would tell women to convince them that they could build planes.)
Opinionated Opinions of the Opinionated she actually had Lovelace as a last name after her husband became earl of Lovelace
She is buried about 15 minutes away from where I live , I have to go and pay my respects
Ada Lovelace published her first algorithm for Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine in 1842. Babbage wrote 2 dozen unpublished programs for his machine between 1837 and 1840. He was evidently the inventor of the mechanical computer and the first programmer. However, he saw it purely as a way to calculate numbers. Lovelace’s brilliance was to see that numbers could stand as symbols for other things: eg notes in music. This let computing go from mathematics to general computing, to create words, pictures or other abstract concepts. Lovelace expanded on and improved Babbage’s ideas.
These bios you do, it's almost like you're pulling your subjects out of my brain. I've been fascinated by Ada Lovelace since I was a kid. Not because I know the first thing about computer programing but because, like Marie Curie and Caroline Herschel, she knew her worth and wasn't afraid to show it. No matter what many men of the time had to say about it. Great job as always guys. Keep it up.
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All over rated and given too much credit by desperate feminists who scrape the bottom of the barrel for brilliant women.
People from high status families tend to know their worth even when they have very little of it
Ada Lovelace was a well respected person in her time.
@@DMWayne-ke7flOne doesn't have to be a feminist to appreciate their history and work. Many women's credit was either taken away or ignored at that time. Not only those who were into science, but also skilful painters. It wasn't easy to go against the norms of that time, it required both brilliancy and guts.
High IQ presenting in both males and females seems to be a tough concept for some to accept, but it needs to be done. Otherwise, we can never understand the full scope of history and human potential. Hopefully you have grown in these past two years friend.
I've done research before on Ada Lovelace, and honestly she is an inspiration for me. I'm a Comp Sci major now and almost everyone in my major is a guy and it isn't uncommon for me to be the only girl in a class. I don't mind that too much, but it makes me feel even better to know that I'm carrying forward the legacy of great female programmers like Ada and the women who helped us reach the moon.
I just started studying electrical engineering... Only woman in my class of 28. While the guys have been nothing but awesome, I do wish there would be more women in my class. Sometimes it feels like a certain amount of pressure. Like, I have to succeed and be good, because in a way, I represent women in this field. Does that make sense to you?
Cheers! Good 4 u both and thank you
As a fellow Margaret and a woman in a male-dominated field, I relate. Keep up the cheerful confidence!
Yes, more women in STEM ❤️👩🏻🔬
@@prapanthebachelorette6803 Nope. You'll ruin the culture of stem and make like nursing or teaching.
"Girls aren't into science, they like feminine things like ponies and butterflies..."
Ada: "here's the schematics for my flying steampunk pony."
The next futuristic dystopian movie should take this idea up and make it happen. A Lovelace steampunk flying pony a la madmax or blade runner! 🤣 I want this!
Science is magic. 🌈
I'd like to imagine that this fictional version of Ada then invented the modern microphone just so she could drop it before throwing up the double devil horns as she bombed out of the building.
"Girls aren't into science, they like feminine things like ponies and butterflies..."
these are things they said to girls in the 17th to 18th century, I have never heard any man say this in the 21st century, let's be fair, no unnecessary feminism.
I love this. Is this a meme?!?
You should do one on Emilie DeChatelet. She was the physicist, mathmetician and philosopher who championed Newton's Principia. She also annotated and translated his book into french which is still used today in France. And she had an affair and children with Rousseau.
Wasn't it Voltaire she had an affair with?
@@freshmagnettv Shocking!
Alan Turing probably deserves an episode also.
@Jeremy Brookes Yet another video explaining that Ada Lovelace had absolutely nothing to do with the invention of the computer
And the notion that the only reason women have never invented anything of any significance is due to this hilariously stupid Feminist idea that it was all because women were 'oppressed' is ludicrous
Women had far more time and energy to invent than most men did throughout history and looking back over the last 60 years since feminism, women have had complete freedom to do whatever they please, yet they still have achieved nothing
Much of the technology fields we have today were also created well after the advent of feminism, so again no excuse and nothing more than a myth
@Jeremy Brookes _I only provided sources_ You didn't provide any sources, if you tried to link anything I already told you that this channel is shadow banning comments with links- not paying attention is how you end up ignorant which you obviously are
It's not my 'belief' that Ada Lovelace is nothing and women cannot invent or build anything, those are hard facts. Her supposed original 'ideas' were never and have never even been put to the test to see if they even work
If there was anyone from that era who contributed to the groundwork of the modern computer it was *George Boole* who created the backbone of today's digital computation and *Alan Turing* devised the world's first mathematical model for a universal digital computer both of whom never even heard of Ava Lovelace. I suggest you google both before you go around making yourself sound even more moronic
People with integrity and character like me despise *fraud* regardless of who is committing it and exposing fraud has nothing to do with muslim extremism, the only 'extremism' here is your extreme ignorance & inability to even know what is going on. Pfft 'Saudi Arabia'
Only weak willed, spineless cowards with no character or morals like you push fraud and/or promote feminist fraud, teaching children lies - what kind of creeps would teach children lies? You're really creepy and so are the people promoting this trash
There's no "probably" involved. Alan Turing definitely deserves an episode. In my opinion far more than the superb marketer who pretended he was a techo-genius, Steve Jobs.
@@jeffbridges5312+ You say that women of the past had far more time and energy to invent things, yet you fail to mention that women of the past had a lesser education, and were not encouraged to think outside the kitchen and marriage bed.
Curious fact: the young Lord Byron famously gave a speech in the House of Lords, one of the greatest orations ever heard in that chamber, in defence of Luddites who had been sentenced to death for machine breaking. It's curious then that his daughter would go on to be inspired by some of the machines they were smashing.
Fun fact: Most early programmers were women. Most moon flights during the space race were programmed by womwn.
@Enoch William After some brief research it would appear you're indeed correct sir, a very little known fact until recently.
Wow, I had no idea. So Shakespeare was 1/2 African & 1/2 Taiwanese? The I wonder if the pictures I’ve seen of him are even of him then. Because those pictures don’t show him looking either African or Taiwanese.
You guys do know that all humans are part African because that’s where civilization began just some are a little more.
Ooo!! I want to do it too! "The first man on the moon was black! A woman also built the first working airplane"
Which explains why COBOL is so wordy
You've got to admit a steam powered horse plane thing no matter how impractical, nay impossible, would be pretty badass.
Great video as always Biographics crew and Simon. Thanks for making them. *:-)*
Do you mean ''neigh impossible''?
...okay, I will take my leave now...
Great retort!
Why don't we use steam engines anymore? They're cool!
As a college computing instructor, I always made a point of talking about Ada encourage my female students. Now you need to follow up with the "Amazing" Grace Hopper who I had the great fortune to meet while I was a doctoral student.
A programmer is someone who accually worked on a computer, that programmed it. She didnt own a computer or make one. None of the work that she did has been used in accual programming. we didnt base any of our work to get to the Internet on her. NONE of our advancement came from her work
I heard she was the first to write a algorithm for computer machine.
And probably true she wasn't a programmer.
Matrim Helmsgaard: if it is true, as stated in the video, that Turing was influenced by Ada's writings in his design of the "Bombe", then your claim is invalid.
BrightBlueJim No it wouldn't, as she still had no hand in programming a computer.
I live close to her resting place and as a fellow nerd, I try and visit to pay my respects to Ada when I can. Great video, just discovered the channel and now subbed :D.
So her Father was an Incestous Insect after all!!!...
1:05 - Chapter 1 - Early life
6:00 - Chapter 2 - Spark of genius
8:15 - Chapter 3 - Analytical engine
14:00 - Chapter 4 - Personal life
17:30 - Chapter 5 - Ada's legacy
she inherited her father´s imagination and creativity, but lacked all the entitlement of being a english high class "gentleman" at that time.
Use capitals!!
And
Could you phrase your comment in a more vulgar fashion?
@@ingriddubbel8468 I don't know... it's a fairly accurate comment about the time. Women in aristocratic circles were ornaments for wealthy high class "gentlemen". That she broke the mold and became more than she was supposed to be is part of her legacy!
She didn't inherit her creativity from her father, she created it.
I said something about one known player from early 1800's; people come crying about peasant men and how Lovelace was more entitled than them.
Well ok.
So sorry for hurting your feelings. I don't deliberately hit down on fragile people.
I like the idea that her mother discouraged her from obvious artistic pursuits for fear she'd become her father so instead she latched onto something else that tickled her fancy anyways because you can't stop genius
As a direct descendant of her it is a bitter story but as a cancer survivor myself I am very proud to see how a ancestor of mine played a big role in saving millions of lives including my own
Really?
Was working on a presentation about Ada when i got this notification actually!
Hope your presentation went well!
You do amazing work, a service to us all.
They should make one about Allen Turing. He has a tragic story that deserves to be heard.
The way Simon presents this video help me learn more about Ada Lovelace than any book did.
One of my university degree majors English. Surprised how many famous authors, poets loose morally. Many lovers, some never marrying (because bad to do so), were illegitimate fathers, bisexuals. People in arts for at least 300 years often really messed up people who wrecked havoc on partners/spouses/children. Many depressed and suicidal. So many whom they touched also depressed, suicidal.They thought living the life without any ties, only to become despondent.
Interesting, most interesting video ever! And I thought I knew everything about Ada Lovelace, or at least a fair amount! I learned a lot about this woman today! Thank you, Simon and your team!
Simon! This was awesome! I've never heard of Ada, but I'd heard of ADA language. Thank you for the lesson; I learn cool, awesome and tragic stuff from you all the time. Rock on, Dude!
Here I am watching a video on the computer programmer who wrote programs before computers existed, and I'm thinking "gee I wonder if you guys also covered Emmy Noether", and I'll be damned - you did. How wonderful!
As a huuuuuuuuge Byron fan, I know Ada well. The princess of the parallelogram, was a bit mad herself in a way, but her and Lord Byron were just not meant to be after all, he married her to make rumours about him and his sister stop. But they created a really amazing woman. In a way, she was the mix of her parents, the analytical mind of her mother, but the creativity of her father . Btw the IT department of the Otto-von-Guericke University in Magdeburg is named after Ada Lovelace.
Her mother was the wealthiest female orphan in England. That's why he married her, to settle his debts. (didn't work)
It's sort of amazing that Ada Lovelace turned out normal let alone a genius with two weirdoes for parents.
What?? Ada was his daughter, wasn't she?
wow she was brilliant; great job, guys!
Thanks. Another shining nail in the coffin of broadcast television.
If you are interested in Alan Turing, and Admiral Grace Hopper, both pioneers in computer science, there is a fair amount about them hosted on TH-cam. This biographic episode is one I requested, and I would not mind seeing episodes on the others as well. One of my favorites about Admiral Hopper though was a clip of "Late Night with David Letterman" in which you get to see her and get a sense of her personality. Something rare in historical figures until the advent of video recording.
Essentially she envisioned a steam-powered Pegasus
LOL
H O R S E G I R L
Just yesterday I got help putting together my own desktop and I love seeing Simon's setup in the background.
Oh wow! I remember seeing her but in a cartoon as a child. It was called: Cyberchase. I was actually shocked in the cartoon that she knew a lot about computers. Shocked yet happy because I want to learn more about numbers as she did.
She looks beautiful in paintings. Almost like a fantasy character.
Well what about Adm Grace Hopper? The "Godmother" of modern programming? You can't talk about the history of computer programming and not mention Adm. "Amazing" Grace Hopper!
Ha, came here to write this comment. Grace Hopper needs her own video!
One of my favourite videos of the entire series :):)
She appeared, if visible, on the Introducing Microsoft Windows 95 book along with the text “AUGUSTA ADA BYRON - PIONEER IN COMPUTER PROGRAMMING”
The Georgia governor named the town, Augusta, after her which a team of golf players formed the AUGUSTA NATIONAL GOLF CLUB (better known as A.N.G.C.) and started The Masters golf tournament
This is a beautiful episode. Thank you!
In the 1990s I worked for a company at 12 St. James Square, London - the home of Ada, Countess of Lovelace. The building has a Blue Plaque to commemorate her residence. Our IT Director was very proud of the building's heritage and I worked at the upper floor where the bedrooms would have been. On quiet evenings in winter, we could hear the faint sound of Ada's ghost moving around and clinking her gin bottles.
Wah. It's you. Simon. Love to hear you in VisualPolitic. History and people biography always be my interest. Now I could hear both from you 😀
wait....did she literally just come up with the first concept of a near-plane like contraption? wow
Leonardo drew pictures of flying machines.
Not even close.
Never a waste of time when listening to the lives you bring to life
Please consider a Bio on Aristde Briand
Yet another well researched and poignant biography. This channel continues to be one of my favorites. Your channel always continues to produce high quality work. Please, keep up the excellent work.
If mathematics takes physical strength in order to be truly great, then how the hell would you explain Steven Hawking? Well, Augustus De Morgan? 3:26
Physical strength has nothing to do with being cerebral.
If physical strength was the reason for cerebral ability then human beings would have been more like lions rather than tool wielding fruit eating omnivores.
Sometimes it seems people don't even watch the video before reading comments and replying to them.
@@dhawthorne1634 I'm not criticizing your comment but presenting another articulation of its validity. I know why you typed it.
@@mpcc2022 Time travel.
An amazing woman. thanks for bringing it to us.
I agree she is amazing but not in a good way, It is amazing that a woman who contributed nothing at all to anything to do with computing in any way is being touted as the first computer programmer :)
Great video! I love your biographics, they're thorough and well done! I would love if you did more on important people in technology, particularly if you would do one on Grace Hopper
Great video. Ada you were phenomenal!
Being a genius is a life of sadness because of society
To say women is incapable is unfashionable in today's standard, but statistically that's still true, no matter how many feminists I will offend by saying that.
@@seanleith5312 ♿️♿️
Please please do Leon Degrelle, he’s one of those overlooked characters form history who had a large impact. Thank you.
Awesome, Simon! How about Hedy Lamarr and, on a more contemporary computer personality, Sophie Wilson - the person who devised the instruction set for the most popular processor ever made.
Literally just finished a Python assignment that involved looping😂😂
We stan a programming kween!!
This is great stuff. I'm a Computer Engineer, so I'd naturally heard of all the pioneering intellectuals in this, very interesting video, but I've not read 'Faster Than Thought A Symposium on Digital Computing Machines' by Bowden, B. V. so on the strength of this vid, I've bought a copy. Thanks for whatever I learn form reading it!
There are at least three good biographies of Ada.
Warning on the the opiate medication reads: take medication orally with wine only. The good old days
Fascinating biography. Thanks so much for this.
Thank you for this video, very informative as always. One of my favorite channels on TH-cam.
Trim Uprising has a lot of characters who are named after people that contributed to the development of the computer and the internet itself, which I actually found very interesting.
"Spark of Genuis" - an unfortunate typo
Interesting story and a great lesson to note patterns the historical book of mankind.
thanks so much for such a detailed account!
Recommendation for future shows - Badass Sculptress Elisabet Ney - did Arthur Schopenhauer and official bust of President Sam Houston
6:55 There was an actual steam powered computer, thank you for sharing this.
I'm just happy I didn't get an ad for walabot.
She was also Lord Byrons daughter. Yes... That Lord Byron!
A fascinating subject and a good introduction , made even more so if one has developed speed listening to cope with the speed of the narrator's delivery...even for native English speakers ;->
What an absolutely amazing woman!!!
I thoroughly enjoyed this one. :)
Excellent video. I was waiting for the tie-in to Turing.
Joseph Jacquard was the first programmer with his loom that produced intricate weavings of patterns and pictures with punch cards. Ada was on the right track but Joseph's Jacquard put pixels on fabric before we had a screen to put it on. Machine code ones and zeros.
@therealcatch okay 👍
Why did I never hear of Ada, the ladies depicted in Hidden Figures, and the woman who finished the Brooklyn bridge?? 30 seconds were barely dedicated to discussing the contributions of Madame Curie. What a loss to have denied this to so many of us who would have felt inclined to explore the sciences and STEM sparked by such role models!!
You guys need to do a video on Lord Byron.
Thank you for this video, I want to use this video on a essay I am writing. This video has a lot of information I never knew about Ada lovelace.
I heard this woman's name a long time ago, glad I was able to finally see why Lovelace stuck
You can really see the thread of rebellion she got in her from her father after all. I really didn't get any of that, it's amazing!
Ada one badass woman. I wish modern day women were more motivated and tried more like her...
In wich aspects? Her freedoms and education certainly helped but she wasn't appreciated in her time any more than others are today.
Absolutely wonderful video!
Lord Byron would be a great subject for a biographics!!!!!
I love your biography videos, because they are interesting and full of knowledge!
Could you please do a video about Charlemagne?
Done
ADA is a fantastic langage (good first to learn and good to stick with it because it is so advanced).
Thank you for this great video 🤩
been binging on this channel all weekend 👍
Time well spent.
Fantastic! Very well done!
While definitely late in this...the US (and probably other countries at the time) had a pneumatic computer used on military aircraft to have an EMP proof computer.
In addition growing out of the early mechanical computers were mechanical adding (and subtraction) machines as well as the mechanical cash registers. While these were definitely not computers they were mechanical calculators.
And look what they did to Turing for all his work. Chemically castrated and driven to suicide.
Fantastic work!
Not according to Jim Holt in "When Einstein Walked With Godel".
Can you please, since we're on the topic of pioneers, create an episode about Konrad Zuse?
His machines are, together with the ENIAC, often considered among the first Computers
The first electronic computers, as mechanical computers existed for centuries before Zuse.
Ever consider an episode on Grace Hopper? Debugging computers and nanoseconds. Check into it
I don’t always watch short framed bio’s. But when I do I like it with a helping serve of low sheen forehead.
Amazing!! There is another movie waiting to be made!!
Doesn't get much better than Ada!
Mr.Whistler once again fantastic work on your Ada Lovelace much appreciated =)
Fantastic! Love your videos.
At 11:53, where this discusses coding to represent letters and numbers, also draws on her early education in Stenography perhaps?
Now these are the delectable tidbits that keep my appetite wet for this channel! Absolutely fascinating!
All she did was copy the work of someone else: www.juliansanchez.com/2012/10/16/much-ada-about-nothing/ .. and even that 'work' had nothing to do with the development of the modern computer. Women are so desperate for some kind female 'genius' that sadly the only thing they invent are.. female inventors.
Face it, invention, science, innovation, all the (legitimate) academic fields of study _themselves_ are not just 'dominated' by men & all invented by men, they ARE the very manifestation of the masculine. Relax, ladies- it's OK, you're not men so stop trying to imitate men.
@@jeffbridges5312 it's so funny seeing insecure men like you being threatened by a woman from decades ago.
@@user-ny1wo1vp9r It's so funny hearing women project their own insecurities onto men. No man in the history of the human race has ever felt 'threatened' by a woman either physically or mentally. Men invent everything, create it all, build it all & maintain it all in the past & right now. Women are simply too weak both mentally & physically because that's who nature designed you. Stop trying to be a man, it's repulsive.
The only area of concern is for that of the fraud being perpetuated here on the low IQ, feelings based thinking & mentally lazy like yourself. If you're comfortable with fraud then you're most likely a fraud yourself. There are dozens of sources debunking the Ada Lovelace fraud, one that does it in a video is called *Equal Contribution:* at 9:25
All of the men who contributed to the invention of the modern computer had never heard of her and none of her supposed 'theories' were ever tested, not to mention she was a fraud herself having copied all of her 'work' from a man.
The entire video debunks all of the feminist frauds & myths for the last 100 years and more and sets the record straight- the entire video is an hour and twenty minutes long, so as a female having the attention span & IQ of a gnat I seriously doubt you could make it all the way through, but a well researched and extremely educational video for anyone else reading this
About the facts of Lord Byron really made my eyebrows raised!
Well done. Thank you.
Glad to 👂of Charles Babbage ☺
I loved this video! Great content!
So.
How many Fyre Festival's "taking one for the team" should I do around Hollywood so we get a miniseries covering Ada and Lord Byron's lives? To be starred by Saoirse Ronan (They even looked alike) and Robert Pattinson?
Great, great video!!!!! Wonderful!
Brilliant biographies. Absolutely enthralled by them. How about a biography of Charles Spurgeon. That would indeed be grand...!
I love this channel it's just excellent and inspiring in some cases .never heard of this lady . thanks 👍