Who Was Ada Lovelace, The World’s First Computer Nerd?

[@jackpullen3820]

Who was Ada Lovelace?... She was a dedicated Mathematics and Computer Theoretical Scientist...and all nerds should bow in recognition...

[@EfeAikpokhio]

You're indeed correct

[@TitaniumTronic]

*bows*

[@ShawnRavenfire]

I'd heard of Ava Lovelace, but I didn't know (or if I did, I forgot) that she was Lord Byron's daughter. That's really interesting.

[@EbonyBunny1]

She never knew her father, but they are buried together.

[@SirAmicVarze]

Huh, I had no idea Ada Lovelace was Lord Byron's daughter. What an amazing family.

[@AnthonyMcqueen1987]

As a programmer I know who she is. her discoveries in algorithms made a foundation of all the tech we have today.

[@EbonyBunny1]

Yes Note G

[@AnthonyMcqueen1987]

@Kishibi Rohan Not a programmer anymore now a white hat hacker programming got boring.

[@cyrusiithegreat2824]

You mean, Internet, AI ?

[@ryanschafer9034]

could you guys do a series on the people many of the units are named for? Volta, Hertz, Tesla etc

[@corrietrue6347]

Oh yes, please! Let us get some insight into the great minds of these geniuses!

[@corrietrue6347]

Do you know that they held patriarchal values, or are you just assuming because they were men in that time period?

[@ryanschafer9034]

text does not convey sarcasm very well. i refer you to the key and peele skit about that for a good example of text being taken out of context on both sides.

[@Sam_on_YouTube]

It's not just Ada Lovelace. Most early giants of computer science were women. It's for the and reason the best physicists of the 20th century were Jews. Discrimination in both cases forced a marginalized group into the subfield that was considered inferior (software as opposed to hardware and theoretical physics as opposed to engineering) at exactly the time that subfield was poised to become much more important. That takes nothing from their accomplishments, of course, it is just an explanation of a statistical anomaly.

[@Tate525]

Most early giants of computer science were women?? like Blaise Pascal, Charles Xavier Thomas, Herman Hollerith, Charles Babbage? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_science#History Check the history and contributions please.

[@Sam_on_YouTube]

+Sanath Chavan I didn't really define "early" well. I was referring to the era where early programming languages were being written. The men focused on hardware and theory and they assigned the women to the programming because they considered it less important. That was right at the time programming was ready to become more important. Many of the women of that era have only recently gotten some recognition.

[@Tate525]

Sam "Early giants of computer science were women" I thought you were referring to origin as well as hardware.

[@Lineage2ErtheiaPvP]

blaise pascal was a woman, charles babbage was black, and herman hollerith was transexual. americans SJW trying to rewrite history

[@mastahcez]

So basically women and jews should thank white guys for pushing them into those fields of science, right? Cool:)

[@entropiCCycles]

It would be nice to see a video on Emmy Noether and her contributions to Mathematics and Physics.

[@zacalrayyis2607]

She's not physically strong, so she shouldn't study math. I like peanut butter, so the big bang never happened. Really?

[@btdtpro]

I wish I could have told my math teacher that I didn't have the physical strength to do math homework.

[@gypibd4760]

AbdulRazak Alrayyis you need physical strength to study math? They why are most mathematicians thin, or fat nerdy males?

[@ravenlorans]

You don't have to remind us who you are Trace, We Haven't Forgotten you and Never will. XD

[@somebody_2837]

She wasn't even the first programmer, she only made theories.

[@littleesecretss]

I learnt about her in my computer science class!

[@rtswift]

no she did not star in deep throat, that was a different lovelace

[@braianr.7]

lol hahahahah

[@BunnyFett]

Ooooo, I know who she is! She's so amazing!! I'm a female programmer as well, naturally.

[@TodayFreedom]

If you're a female "programmer" then I assume you've read up on the actual mechanics of Babbage's machine and know that nothing in Lovelace's notes is remotely original or connected to computer programming. She was an average mathematician at a time when women weren't allowed to study mathematics- that's all she was. Nothing more, nothing less. Marie Curie was a legend of science, not Countess Lovelace.

[@BunnyFett]

What the hell do you think programming was considered as back then? People weren't making operating systems, programs, websites, and video games back then.

[@TodayFreedom]

It wasn't programming. It's a false comparison. Besides, nothing in Lovelace's work is original. So according to your definition Babbage was "the first programmer". Don't trust me though, do your own research.

[@BunnyFett]

It is programming, just not computer programming. Terminologies change over time along with societal and technological changes.

[@urmentor4362]

@@TodayFreedom Charles babbage made the first pc ,whijtout a pc lovelace cant do a sht

[@BrokebackBob]

Ada was a heroine of the highest order and I know the Ada programming language and much important and critical and control software was written in it in order to unify the software that was being used in the 1960s and 1970s. It's a great language.

[@MrBeefy-gr5ep]

Tesla! He deserves way more credit than he was ever given...not to mention how different our world might be if he had been given that credit while he was still alive...

[@EpicWarTurtle]

+Angryconsumernerd enunciate

[@sk3tch982]

+Angryconsumernerd If you paid attention to the video, he requested some suggestions, he asked what other people of science would the viewers like to hear about you idiot.

[@sk3tch982]

+Angryconsumernerd wow that was the best comeback I've ever read .wtf ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿

[@VintageLJ]

Tesla is given shit tonnes of credit. He is worshipped by wannabe nerds and beta-males with a "mild interest in science".

[@BrokebackBob]

+VintageLJ You sound like a fool saying that.

[@alveolate]

the sexist letter to ada's mom literally gave her cancer.

[@gingergamergirl98]

Oh

[@NecoEmme]

YESSSS I LOVE ADA LOVELACE

[@hexazalea1793]

And now Fallout 4 has named a robot compaion after her and didn't give it much character.... Well atleast Curie is adorable no matter what.

[@ashwina77]

I want to go back in time and show her some of the modern apps on the iOS App Store for example GarageBand I think she’d like that

[@shadowpod13]

This reminds me of another woman mathematician/programmer who didn't get the credit she deserved but played a pivotal role in history: Katherine Johnson. She was the mathematician and programmer behind putting the first American's into space and onto the Moon. I hadn't heard of her myself till I watched Timeless, and then I heard of her again over on a couple of other KZbin channels. Wanted to bring attention to her for everyone else.

[@windstorm1000]

Ada's contributions to science are inestimable--they lead up to what we are typing here--

[@cyrusiithegreat2824]

Internet inventor :"hello ?"

[@TitaniumTronic]

@@cyrusiithegreat2824 that's why "lead up" because she sparked it, and thanks to the brilliant minds of our modern earth, we progressed into this!

[@akantorman1]

I remember holding a presentation on ada lovelace in school. still remember quite a bit about her and lord byron

[@sanadalsulaiman918]

Wow, I know that she was the first programmer ever, but wow what a story she's a legend

[@fredfine]

So interesting! Would like to know more about Anita Borg. Thanks!

[@rosemichaelis9519]

Wow so many sexists on here. Lol

[@gypibd4760]

Rose Michaelis They are so insecure and afraid of women.

[@lloydgush]

Actually "the first dedicated programmer" is what she was. technically her "patron" was a computer affectionate earlier than her. So, the "mother of programming" would be a better name. Like little richard is the "architect of rock'n'roll".

[@alveolate]

*afficionado

[@lloydgush]

Gregory Samuel Teo tnkx!

[@corrietrue6347]

Wouldn't it be wonderful if DNews would make an associated channel all about the people behind science and their histories?!

[@alveolate]

Liz True that would be Seeker Daily, i think? good suggestion nonetheless.

[@lloydgush]

Liz True They aren't competent enough for that. I don't people taking gossip for truth, like people thinking JW had wooden teeth. And that's what they'd do for science history, you can bet.

[@misledfortune]

I'm all for highlighting some of the spectacular woman of history but can we PLEASE not involve politics? It has been getting noticeably more political on this channel since Obama was spotlighted. However, I came here for science, not your opinion on social issues. I get enough people's opinions shoved in my face everyday. I don't need it here.

[@MatJan86]

Yeah, don't turn it into political chanel keep it the old way science only.

[@TraceDominguez]

Where's the politics? Sorry, I don't see any.

[@misledfortune]

+Trace Dominguez "Modern computing is riddled with stories of gender bias, boys toys, and even war time success of men. But what about women?" That is a politically charged statement. You could have easily just said "Ada Lovelace was one of the most influential women in computing." There was no need to throw in the "men are praised for their success, what about women?" right at the start.

[@ImNoctica]

+misledfortune I think he's a third waver like Laci Green. Their loss tbh

[@sugarplum2503]

lol so talking about truth of the biased that faced women and its unfounded nature is political?! lol gfy

[@PickinPal]

Love and respect to Ada!!!! Hey has anyone else here heard a tune by a band The Muzeekees dedicated to Ada? It's called The Ballad of Ada Lovelace 2.0, you can find it on KZbin, they have a channel @muzeekees 😎👍👍

[@GodsSmile]

Dr Who brought me here :) Jan 2020!

[@azizuladnan2957]

Yeah! Now let's conquer Noor Inayat Khan in the Ted-Ed video! XD

[@urbanprimitive5766]

There was a movie made about her, with Timothy Leary (Ada kinda got lost in the shuffle, though. It was not a great movie, but at least it introduced some folks to her.)

[@Eysc]

_Homer voice_ : NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERD.

[@BrokebackBob]

Trace, you are just a big sweet furry smart bear with a great enthusiasm and aura.

[@psandbergnz]

The story of Ada Lovelace has been hugely exaggerated by feminists (like this speaker). There is actually no evidence that Lovelace invented the first computer program. The notes that we find in her diaries about computing probably originated with Charles Babage. The first computer program probably originated with Babage himself, the inventor of the computer, rather than Lovelace.

[@urmentor4362]

True so true these wh*re feminists making fake statements

[@Lineage2ErtheiaPvP]

Ada Lovelace, a friend of Babbage, between 1842 and 1843 translated an article by Italian military engineer Luigi Menabrea on the engine,[8] which she supplemented with a set of notes, simply called Notes. These notes include an algorithm to calculate a sequence of Bernoulli numbers,[9] intended to be carried out by a machine. Despite controversy over scope of her contribution, many consider this algorithm to be the first computer program.[8] ---- So she was a great translator ---

[@TodayFreedom]

Exact same for that other nonentity Mary Sommerville. None of this makes any sense at all- neither of these women is of any importance to science. Both of them were simply exceptionally rich members of the aristocracy who were average mathematicians. That's all they were! Nightingale and Marie Curie apparently aren't good enough...Gotta go inventing myths.

[@tosoledo]

This is totally farfetched to say that computers would never existed without her work. She was one among many people who contributed to the development a computing science and she was far from being irreplaceable. Science is a collaborative and cumulative enterprise. And why did you say "regardless of criticism", that discredit even more what you say by purposefully leaving criticism out.

[@whiteautumn3167]

I just read about this in school

[@babanggagan5720]

Bless her.

[@avarussurava9488]

badass chick

[@arindampal6032]

Very interesting our school has referred to this video I love it

[@magilmart]

Kuddos for Ada! Impressive to achieve so much in a man driven world

[@jorgecorea7528]

Do Tesla and Newton, pls.

[@iknow991]

Cover Hedy Lamarr next!!! Keep this train going!

[@rakibulhasan1645]

You are great bro

[@frroossst4267]

thanks for this video

[@Rachelbee]

Here after seeing dr who's Spyfall!

[@manullim]

I am saddened to learn that she died at a relatively young age....

[@AJ-pj5dg]

Do a video over Hedy Lamar.

[@Toastmaster_5000]

Anybody else thought this video was going to be about "ladyada" from adafruit.com?

[@EbonyBunny1]

It is. Adafruit was names after Ada Lovelace. So was Ada Diamonds.

[@MakiYamazaki]

I'd love to see a video about Lynn Conway!

[@ajadhav9338]

can you make a video on works of Tesla

[@germainlechapelain3254]

Thank you!

[@teonatsios491]

ADA aka Cardano is now a cryptocurrency.. her work STILL shows..

[@joshsmith7438]

stop saying left and right!! its: left, right and centre

[@MonkeyChoz]

I remember her because of one episode of cyber chase

[@jamescoffey5330]

How about a video on Grace Hopper?

[@HikaruKatayamma]

My car doesn't have any computers in it. HAH! (It's a 69 Mercury....=^_^=)

[@bishop51807]

A gas guzzling, metal monster with no seat belts good for you bro.

[@annaabrams8738]

+bishop51807 The fact that it's a metal monster is what makes that car good

[@baoquoc3710]

Now she's the heart of New RTX 4090

[@AvailableUsernameTed]

Check out the graphic novel "The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage" by Sydney Padua. Funny stuff.

[@VCYT]

She is depicted in the series victoria.

[@VintageLJ]

Charles Babbage was the first, she was the second.

[@ImNoctica]

Do you know how many people you're triggering right now????????????

[@RaphYkun]

iunno, is there a program that could figure this out?

[@Mr_Scrooge]

Lmao are you dumb. Didn't you hear what the man said?

[@VintageLJ]

Immortalle Inc Didn't even watch the video.

[@GWT1m0]

He was the inventor, a nerd has to be someone with immense interest in a subject that isn't created by them

[@shafiqrehman9584]

what happened to testtube news?

[@neonmarkov6544]

They just changed their name to "Seeker Daily" because of some shit about them being bought or something

[@grainnemckeown1681]

It's called seeker daily now. Seeker daily is called seeker network and testtube plus is called dnews plus. It sucks.

[@50ShadesOfEndo]

+Grainne McKeown Why does it matter? They produce the same sort of videos

[@grainnemckeown1681]

***** It matters. The format has changed.

[@neonmarkov6544]

Grainne McKeown It is pretty much the same, just its looks has changed

[@zakariamusse1117]

#GivePewdsHisDiamondPlayButton

[@joshuaxjoseph]

no

[@Mr.NobodyImportant]

Fuck Pewdiepie, like having 40+ million subscribers isn't enough.

[@bruabba]

+RustingFox yes

[@joshuaxjoseph]

+Eirin Amalie no

[@bruabba]

+RustingFox nuh-uh

[@lexigrimhaive]

What are Bertoli numbers?

[@ToeCutter454]

i'm going to guess that's where they got the name for "AdaFruit", arduino snap together components that can be programmed to do literally anything you can think of!

[@EbonyBunny1]

Yes, Adafruit was names after Ada Lovelace. So was Ada Diamonds.

[@Valiant_Doe]

I miss this being called Dnews...

[@Tate525]

The only two persons who's non-existence would have majorly affected us would be "Nikola Tesla" and "Thomas Edison" if they didn't brought up their AC and DC systems. Let's see how people live without electricity, back to the farming days and most importantly back to the kitchen!

[@TodayFreedom]

I get your point, but it's overstated. The enlightenment age only occurred because of the fantastic sums of money generated during the industrial revolution, which relied on the astounding breakthroughs in mechanical engineering, iron production, etc. This created the "Age of Steam" which gave birth to global trade on an unprecedented scale. It's impossible to separate Edison from the age that came before him. But frankly, Lovelace was an irrelevance and still is. She didn't discover a damned thing. Just wrote notes on someone else's work, that's all.

[@unitymomentum]

that's very interesting :)

[@edijsieva]

I hear Ada is most hated programming language. I hear the longer beard programming language creator haves, more loved language is. Adds up with Ada.

[@apburner1]

I thought it said Linda Lovelace, I'll show myself out.

[@Ak-yz6td]

what is the name of the paper anyway

[@madcommodore]

Technically she was a Math Nerd lol

[@dhirajpandey8900]

There is one chapter on LADY ADA LOVELACE

[@nadiashireensiddiqi]

I say ride illed not riddle d Ada Lovelace was so romantically beautiful Charles Babbage piqued Wow , it sounds incredible the first calculator/computer She died from cancer at 36 that’s horrible. She was so so beautiful... the women from Hidden Figures were human computers/calculators And should have preemptively been replaced with Ada and Charles’ analytical machine. But weren’t

[@baaoowee2993]

Hey +DNews, could you make a video about the Nobel Prize or the Darwin Awards? Thanks!

[@jawwwp428]

Oml of course we would be watching this without her all she did was write an algorithm remember the engine wasn’t actually made

[@TitaniumTronic]

She also influenced Alan Turing, basically gave him the idea, had Faraday collaborated with a woman, the electric computer probably would have been invented a century earlier.

[@jawwwp428]

Titanium Tronic your a year late

[@fredfine]

Cover archaeomythologists, please!

[@lyubomirdimov7084]

Actually she is not the first programmer, Babbage wrote the first programs, but they ware in a form of plates, ready for a later version of the machine. And think what it would be if she didn't push the computers in misleading direction. If the computers were ment to do only math we could be out of our solar system by now....

[@tokofukawa6056]

We also wouldn't have things like KZbin, Facebook, Twitter etc. If it was just made for math. Her pushing the computers in a 'misleading direction' indirectly shaped how we use computers

[@lyubomirdimov7084]

Yes, it is super great to sit whole day on Fbook and play video games at the age 7 to 18 instead of go and visit friend, gallery or literally anything......or maybe go on mars because we could if we didn't focus on fbook and youtube. Thank you Ada for having youtube in which we see inaccurate videos about you!

[@TodayFreedom]

100% correct! Nice to see someone else who knows the truth about Lovelace. Nothing in her work was original and none of it is connected to computer programming. The whole thing is just part of the feminist agenda. Marie Curie was a great scientist, Florence Nightingale advanced medical science. Lovelace was just an average mathematician. That's all.

[@theeartsee6622]

I'm related to her. She's in my family tree.

[@alphascorpii3757]

Really? That’s very interesting. Wonderful woman you can proudly say you’re related to.

[@fobusas]

Ada Lovelace was irrelevant to the history of computing. Not because of her lack of achievement, but because Babbage's engine was a false start to computers, in the same way vikings were not consequential to New World history. This video is straining believability as it tries to stretch her importance...

[@EbonyBunny1]

Totally False. Read what I just replied to TodayFreedom above.

[@fobusas]

Yeah, read it, and it doesn't address my point in any way, shape or form. In your obsessive commenting you missed that I wasn't denying that she wasn't a gifted mathematician. Just that her dieing young and with Babbage failing with analytical engine venture, any potential she may have had on computer science was lost. My analogy with vikings in the new world is a apt as ever. Yeah, they technically discover North America way before Columbus, but it was only a few settlements that quickly died out, and their discovery was soon forgotten. As such they had no impact on the history of North America. Same with Ada Lovelace.

[@urmentor4362]

So true ,most of these people dumb thinking that she made the first computer programme , only babbage made the computer and the programmes she did only translating them

[@marvinjameserosa]

Wow! A nice youtube comment section

[@Ak-yz6td]

can anyone please link to that paper

[@z.n.zakaria6411]

I heard of Ada lovelace because of RTX 40 series

[@Gouthamkg]

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[@thewretchedexcess3203]

dude profile norbert weiner, the mit dude who invented cyberknetics

[@wushulubis7899]

I read About charles babbage in the second book of general ignorance its on the tab who made the first computer.

[@sudonick2161]

Damn....that Ada chick zuckerberged Charles Babbage...lol

[@cyxo_o]

"Computers can't predict analysis" of whatever. Well now with neural networks, it's not that true...

[@EbonyBunny1]

No. She was correct when she said there is no such thing as artificial intelligence. She knew, even 100 years ago, all a computer can do is what it was programmed to do. It can not think for itself. All it can do is take, what someone already programmed, and run it. All you can do is pre program it with with many conditional statements, and it can run them and appear to be thinking on it's own, but computers can not, nor will they ever have the ability to think for itself.

[@BananaMike780]

huh, she did all this shit AND was lord byrons daughter and I never heard of her? what the hell

[@rumbledoll100]

Wow, I’m related to her, and she is big brain, and I’m small brain

[@ZapRedfield]

Please dont go full sjw

[@devoyinator]

I'm fully against SJW culture, but that's not too relevant here. It is 100% correct that in computing women are somewhat underrepresented. That's all they said, and it's correct. Especially when we're talking about the early 18th century, being a woman and succeeding in such a field is extra impressive.

[@somed214]

I'm pretty sure that what you just wrote makes you an SJW in the eyes of the kind of people who whine about SJWs regularly.

[@devoyinator]

somed214 That's the internet I guess. Unless you hold the same extremist fringe view on anything from politics to society you'll be accused of the opposite extremist fringe view.

[@wheatboi8255]

Well he did talk about the accomplishments of something with a vagina. Then he made it worse by mentioning those accomplishments were made more difficult by having a vagina. According to the internet that is the very definition of an SJW.

[@TodayFreedom]

Brilliant. Thank you for making me laugh :)

[@Chris-eo1bp]

Feminist propaganda confirm Controversy over extent of contributions[edit] Though Lovelace is referred to as the first computer programmer, some biographers and historians of computing claim the contrary. Allan G. Bromley, in the 1990 article Difference and Analytical Engines: All but one of the programs cited in her notes had been prepared by Babbage from three to seven years earlier. The exception was prepared by Babbage for her, although she did detect a 'bug' in it. Not only is there no evidence that Ada ever prepared a program for the Analytical Engine, but her correspondence with Babbage shows that she did not have the knowledge to do so.[73] Bruce Collier, who later wrote a biography of Babbage, wrote in his 1970 Harvard University PhD thesis that Lovelace "made a considerable contribution to publicizing the Analytical Engine, but there is no evidence that she advanced the design or theory of it in any way".[74] Eugene Eric Kim and Betty Alexandra Toole consider it "incorrect" to regard Lovelace as the first computer programmer, as Babbage wrote the initial programs for his Analytical Engine, although the majority were never published.[75] Bromley notes several dozen sample programs prepared by Babbage between 1837 and 1840, all substantially predating Lovelace's notes.[76] Dorothy K. Stein regards Lovelace's notes as "more a reflection of the mathematical uncertainty of the author, the political purposes of the inventor, and, above all, of the social and cultural context in which it was written, than a blueprint for a scientific development".[77]

[@harylatstv6848]

Nice

[@otureisio4348]

That explains why programming languages are so confusing because women are so confusing.

[@Lineage2ErtheiaPvP]

summoning "trigglypuff"....

[@Arkino1498]

MIDNIGHTERS!~

[@volikoto]

The Egypt science please.

[@troyhayder6986]

Add 1 over 1(1)==1 The first programmer...

[@NextGenAge]

I miss Julia :(

[@MahendraSingh-ko8le]

+DNews what about sir alan turing?

[@hcb3150]

he used her notes when inventing the colossus machine

[@ylstorage7085]

no, not the "hello world" kind first programmer. It is deeper than assembly code. it is the kind of program, that, as if you look at an intel chip, eyeballing it physically, understanding what it does and just started writting binary code that will run on that chip.