Computing Pioneer Ada Lovelace Gets Deserved Google Doodle
Google does commemorative logos — called Google Doodles — pretty
regularly now. But today, it’s a much-deserved tip-of-the-pen to
celebrate the 197th birthday of Ada Lovelace, a woman who is one
of computing’s earliest pioneers. She was a collaborator of
Charles Babbage, designer of the ground-breaking mechanical
computers — which he never actually built — the Difference
Engine and the Analytical Engine. Lovelace’s notes on the
Analytical Engine are considered to be among the first
algorithms created; she also theorized about the larger
potential of computers beyond mathematics, including to make
music. All that with just a quill and some paper.