3. In 1842, Charles Babbage asked Ada to document a seminar he had given in Turin, Italy on the development of his newest proposed machine, the Analytical Engine. With the article, she appended a set of Notes. In her notes Ada describes an algorithm for the analytical engine to compute Bernoulli numbers. It was published in The Ladies Diary and the prestigious Taylor's Scientific Memoirs. This is generally considered the first algorithm ever specifically tailored for implementation on a computer, and for this reason she is considered by many to be the first computer programmer. the Analytical Engine She could possibly also be said to be the first to use the expression "Garbage In, Garbage Out". Lovelace writes: The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. It can follow analysis; but it has no power of anticipating any analytical relations or truths. " In December 10, 1980, the U.S. Defense Department approved the reference manual for their new computer programming language, called "Ada".
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5. “ We did have desk calculators at that time, mechanical and driven with electric motors, that could do simple arithmetic. You'd do a multiplication and when the answer appeared, you had to write it down to reenter it into the machine to do the next calculation. We were preparing a firing table for each gun, with maybe 1,800 simple trajectories. To hand-compute just one of these trajectories took 30 or 40 hours of sitting at a desk with paper and a calculator. As you can imagine, they were soon running out of young women to do the calculations. Actually, my title working for the ballistics project was `computer.' The idea was that I not only did arithmetic but also made the decision on what to do next. ENIAC made me, one of the first `computers,' obsolete.” In the autumn of 1945, Kay McNulty was one of six women computers chosen to program ENIAC. Initially they were not allowed into the ENIAC room because of the secrecy of the project and instead they had to program the computer from blueprints in an adjacent room.
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7. Origin of the term “Computer Bug” Grace Hopper and associates, while working on a Mark II computer at Harvard University, discovered a moth stuck in a relay and thereby impeding operation, whereupon she remarked that they were "debugging" the system. The remains of the moth can be found in the group's log book at the Naval Surface Weapons Center.
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