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Lovelace

[luhv-leys]

noun

  1. Richard, 1618–56, English poet.



Lovelace

/ ˈlʌvˌleɪs /

noun

  1. Countess of, title of Ada Augusta King. 1815–52, English mathematician and personal assistant to Charles Babbage: daughter of Lord Byron. She wrote the first computer program

  2. Richard. 1618–58, English Cavalier poet, noted for To Althea from Prison (1642) and Lucasta (1649)

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Ms. Lovelace is considered the world’s first computer programmer.

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Ada Lovelace Day – a global annual celebration of women working in Stem – is on borrowed time.

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Michael Birtwhistle, head of research at the Ada Lovelace Institute research group, believes the technology is so new that the laws have not yet caught up.

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“Volunteer agreements essentially are just a means of firms marking their own homework,” says Andrew Straight, associate director of the Ada Lovelace Institute, an independent research organisation.

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One piece she’s never heard, however, is Richard Lovelace’s poem “To Lucasta, On Going to the Wars,” which ends with the lines “I could not love thee, Dear, so much/Loved I not Honour more.”

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