What’s the person full name and who were their parents?

Augusta Ada Byron, Lady of Lovelace

Born to Anna Isabella Milbanke and George Gordon Noel Byron

What’s their date of birth and did they have siblings?

Augusta was born on December 15, 1815

She had two half-sisters, Allegra Byron and Elizabeth Medora Leigh

She never met Allegra because she died at the age of 5

What’s their place of birth?

She was born in Piccadilly Terrace, London, England

Where did they receive their childhood education?

Ada was privately home schooled in mathematics and science

Her last tutor Augustus De Morgan was an active member of London society, she was a member of the Bluestockings in her youth.

Her tutors consisted of William Frend, William King, Mary Somerville, and Augustus De Morgan.

Where did they obtain further/advance education?

Ada did not receive any further education after her tutors

What’s their invention?

She is known as the first programmer, because she wrote a description of Charles Babbage’s early mechanical general-purpose computer, the analytical engine

How has this invention been used in our century for the betterment of our society?

Ada’s Bernoulli calculation program for specialized calculus operations achieves correct values in today’s computers

What technological Advances/Developments came about because of their invention?

The computer language Ada, created by the U.S. Defense Department, was named after Lovelace. The reference manual for the language was approved on December 10, 1980, Ada's birthday,

and the Department of Defense Military Standard for the language, "MIL-STD-1815" was given the number of the year of her birth

Did someone help with the invention or who used the innovation process to enhance this development?

Ada wrote a program for the Analytical Engine on her own, but she heard a lecture about the difference engine designed by Charles Babbage

Ada was inspired her to write her own program based on his lecture

Is this Inventor still alive and, if so, where are they located?

She died on November 27, 1852

She died at the age of 36

She died in London, England

She was bled to death by her physicians, who were trying to treat her uterine cancer

Interesting Facts

Ada was known as The Enchantress orf Numbers

She had a fascination of horses and horse racing

Ada, Oklahoma is known for horse breeding

Her image can be seen on the Microsoft product authenticity hologram stickers

When she died she was a bankrupt laudanum addict

By request she was buried next to the father she never knew at the Curch of St. Mary Magdalene in Hucknall, Nottingham

Works Cited

Ada, Countess of Lovelace: Byron’s Legitimate Daughter. Doris Langley Moore. New York: Harper & Row, 1977.

Ada, the Enchantress of Numbers. Betty A. Toole. Sausilito, Calif.: Strawberry Press, 1992.

The Calculating Passion of Ada Byron. Joan Baum. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books/ The Shoe String Press, 1986.

http://www.cs.fit.edu/~ryan/ada/lovelace.html http://www.kerryr.net/pioneers/ada.htm