 | VOCABULARY to ask - poprosić
to translate - przetłumaczyć
article - artykuł
scientist - uczony
to write - napisać
to show - pokazać
to suggest - zasugerować
to add - dodać
notes - notatki, zapiski
three times as long as ... - trzy razy dłuższe niż ...
original - oryginalny, pierwotny
to dvescribe - opisać
step - krok
the Analytical Engine - maszyna analityczna Charlesa Babbage'a, uważana za prototyp pierwszego komputera
to work out - tu: rozwiązać, wypracować
answer - odpowiedź
to create - stworzyć
in effect - w rezultacie
to speculate - snuć domysły, przypuszczać
future ability to - przyszła zdolność do
graphics - tu: grafika komputerowa
complex - złożony, skomplikowany
computing language - język programowania
to acknowledge - przyznać, uznać
prescience - zdolność przewidywania
to name - nazwać
in her honour - w hołdzie, na jej cześć
to marry - poślubić
earl - hrabia
to die - umrzeć
plaque - tablica pamiątkowa
in the heart of Mayfair - w samym sercu Mayfair (dzielnicy Londynu) |
Lesson 24
Ada LovelaceShe was asked to translate an article that an Italian scientist had written about Babbage's ideas and, when she showed it to Babbage, he suggested that she should add her own notes.
By the time she had finished, Ada's notes were three times as long as the original article.
She described the steps by which the Analytical Engine could work out the answers to mathematical problems, creating what were, in effect, the first ever computer programmes, and she speculated on its future ability to create graphics and complex music.
The computing language ADA acknowledges her prescience and is named in her honour.
Married to the Earl of Lovelace, Ada died aged only thirty-six, the same age at which her father died. The plaque to Ada Lovelace is in the heart of Mayfair, at 12 St James's Square.
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