Ada Lovelace

Enheduanna (~2300 BCE): Enheduanna was the daughter of Sargon of Akkad, the first ruler of the Akkadian Empire in Ancient Sumeria, approximately 2300 BCE. She is the largely credited as being the world’s first named author; she wrote numerous poems, psalms, and prayers which lay the foundation for later Hebrew psalms and the Homeric Hymns of Ancient Greece. Enheduanna served as High Priestess to the Akkadian Empire, and was charged with the responsibility to maintain the city’s temple complex…

written numerous other works, many of them being history books for children. Some of the history books she has written include Florence Nightingale and Napoleon, which were part of the Usborne Famous Lives series, True Stories of Pirates, and Who Was Ada Lovelace?, which earned her the 2002 Blue Peter Award for nonfiction. Lethbridge obviously has a love for history and is qualified in writing history books, even if the intended audience for most are children. The thesis of Lethbridge’s novel…

tells the story of Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage. The two put together their brilliant minds and had the outcome of what is known modern day as computer software. As Johnson claims “Babbage’s idea and Lovelace’s footnote proved to be so far ahead of time that, for a long while, they were lost to history.” (250) Babbage and Lovelace’s perception was completely rediscovered in the 1940’s, this is when the first working computer came to be. The footnote created by Babbage and Lovelace is what…

1. Ada, Countess of Lovelace - Ada’s mother ordered that she studies mathematics to help discipline her and at 17 she was attending lectures from math and science wizard Charles Babbage. - She was able to observe his Difference Engine, which was capable of making complicated mechanical calculations, and eventually furthered his ideas to one which performed operations and was able of interchanging them independently from human control (Isaacson 2014). - She eventually pioneered computer…

there is no place in society for a female interested in the computer industry. This difference in names that the general population think of is very disturbing because some of the most influential people in the history of computing are female. Ada Lovelace was the first person to program a computer, which without her you would not have your Candy Crush game or Facebook account. Toys also shape how the job is viewed. From a very…

As an undergraduate student, I spent an extensive amount of time trying to articulate why I should choose a particular calling over others. I am intellectually curious and prefer perceiving information in an interdisciplinary manner. Thus, the necessity to choose one or two majors imposed a challenge. Studying at a liberal arts college reassured me in the idea that the fields I was primarily interested in – Economics and Political Science – are not isolated or restrictive. Both are based on a…

Today we as a culture spend more time using the computer to learn, meet and ask. Is this a bad thing or can this expand our knowledge and bring new inventions to our society? In 2011, Americans connected to the Internet more than ever before, it was a time of expanding our knowledge as individuals. Computers were dropping in price and making it so most american families could use the internet, the Internet is what holds everything it 's a vast computer network. It can link smaller computer…

Institutional discrimination against women comes in many forms. While employment and the accompanying processes are only one of the many ways that institutional discrimination is carried out, it affects society greatly. This happens through the wage gap, the sex typing of jobs, and barriers placed so women struggle in certain fields. The discrimination in employment is shaped by those who are in charge, who limit women’s employment through history, who discourage women’s education in certain…

Functionalism is one of the most recent theories of mind, and as such, it has been a target of much criticism. While it is certain that functionalism is a theory that contains a number of flaws as a result of its contemporary nature, it is apparent that a lot of the criticisms it has received are misguided. The modern theory of functionalism proposes that mental states of humans should be identified by the function that those mental states sever rather than the material composition. To…

Reading Becoming a Learner should be a requirement for all students upon entering high school. These skills are essential for entering the real world and college life. In the book it says, “In other words the kind of person you become is much more important than what you learn how to do.” (Sanders, 2). This quote explains that the skills one develop through learning is much more important than actually obtaining a degree. It also explains that overcoming mistakes and failures will help anyone in…