The First Computer Programmer: Ada Lovelace | STEM Loft EP. 5

[Music] oh hello there did you know that the world's first computer programmer was born around the same time as Abraham lincol and Queen

Victoria hi I'm Miranda cosgro welcome to the stem loft where the landlord said it wasn't haunted and was honestly really weird about [Music]

it seems 100 Years too early right but it's true aah lovely the first computer programmer was born all the way back in 1815 but how can a computer programmer

be born before computers were invented how how chill I'll explain aa's father was Lord Byron one of England's most well-known Romantic Poets he was a messy

drama queen way before that was even a thing and right after a was born he not only left AA and her mother he left England forever bye A's mother baroness

an Isabella and Noel Byron was known for her skill in mathematics as much as Lord Byron loved poetry and romance baroness and Byron loved mathematics and logic

she told a you weren't going to grow up into a moody poet like your deadbeat dad here's some math and so a was schooled in mathematics and reason her mother spared no expense on A's education and

her learning included meeting some of the finest minds of the time like the scientist Michael Faraday and the novelist Charles Dickens this was would be like if Ariana Grande came in to be

your substitute choir teacher and Serena Williams stopped by to teach you a little tennis it was incredibly unusual to even think of allowing a girl such an education in the 1800s so aah was really

lucky her mom had her back all this education did the trick and as AA grew up she developed really impressive technological and mathematical skills

when she was 17 aah met inventor and mathematician Charles babage at a party he designed a new machine called the Difference Engine and a was like this is totally cool I love machines and math

can I help and he was like fire and they started working together at this time math was all done by hand astronomers and Navigators in the 1800s needed

extensive tables of polom functions in order to do their jobs but these tables all handwritten sometimes had mistakes bages Difference Engine was designed to

automate the process without any errors and it worked you years later babage had plans for an updated machine and he asked Italian engineer Luigi minaba to

help outline what the new invention could do when Luigi finished his paper aah volunteered to translate it into English but she didn't just translate

the paper she also added her own ideas she proposed a set of instructions for the machine to perform more sophisticated calculations and that set of instructions is considered the first

computer program she also predicted that one day data processed by computers could represent words images and more she even wrote one day a computer might

compose elaborate and scientific pieces of music of any degree of complexity so I guess she kind of also invented EDM cool AA tragically died at the age of 36

but her Brilliance lives on as evidenced by the computers of today oh by the way the babage machine and its printer worked flawlessly and still does to this

day thanks a love lace so every time you send an emoji or open a website or play a video game please remember a love La the 19th century math genius with the

flashy poetic Dad hey it's Miranda Cosgrove your favorite host of mission Unstoppable I'm the only host and if you want to watch awesome stem videos and exclusive

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