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Tuesday 11 Oct 2016

Ada Lovelace Day



Ada Lovelace Day was created to celebrate one of the first computer programmers. As the daughter of the poet Lord Byron, Augusta Ada Byron, was brought up by her mother, Annabella, after he passed.

Her mother feared that she would inherit her father’s poetic temperament, and gave Ada a strict upbringing of logic, science and mathematics.

Ada became fascinated with mechanisms and designed steam flying machines, poring over the scientific magazines of the time and embracing the British Industrial revolution.

In 1833, Ada Lovelace was introduced to Charles Babbage whom she helped to develop a device called The Analytical Engine; an early predecessor of the modern computer.

Lovelace and Babbage worked together closely for many years in order to refine the Engine. Ada found relative fame in 1842 when she expanded on an article by an Italian mathematician, in which she elaborated on the use of machines through the manipulation of symbols.

Although Babbage had sketched out programs before, Lovelace’s were the most elaborate and complete, and the first to be published; so she is often referred to as “the first computer programmer”.

Ada Lovelace died of cancer at the age of 36 a few short years after the publication of “Sketch of the Analytical Engine, with Notes from the Translator”.

The Analytical Engine remained a vision for many but until Ada’s notes inspired Alan Turing to work on the first modern computers in the 1940’s.

Her passion and vision for technology have made her a powerful symbol for women in the modern world of technology.



And



Face Your Fears Day



Take a moment to consider what your life might be like if you conquered some of your greatest fears.

What would you do differently?

Face Your Fears Day gives you the chance to stand up to your fears, overcome them, and to seize the day.





October 11 Birthdays


Eleanor Roosevelt - (1884-1962)






October 11th

2005: Rod Stewart received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. His star is located at 2093 Hollywood Blvd.

1999: Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee was arrested in North Carolina after avoiding arrest for charges of instigating a riot at a concert in Greensboro two years earlier.

1990: Nirvana performed their first concert with Dave Grohl on drums at the North Shore Surf Club in Olympia, WA.

1988: Former Beatles drummer Ringo Starr and his wife Barbara Bach began treatment for alcohol abuse at a rehabilitation clinic in Tucson, AZ.

1988: Van Halen was awarded the Gold Ticket during their concert at Madison Square Garden for playing to over 100,000 fans at the Garden.

1986: Genesis peaked at number four on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart with “Throwing It All Away” which was their third top ten single in the U.S.

1983: Kiss performed their first concert without makeup at the Cascais Hall in Lisbon, Portugal.

1980: The Police reached number one on the U.K. album chart for the second time with Zenyatta Mondatta which spent four weeks on top of the chart.

1975: The first episode of Saturday Night Live then titled Saturday Night premiered on NBC. The episode was hosted by George Calrin, first musical guests were Janis Ian and Billy Preston and the bandleader was Paul Shaffer.



Birthdays:

Gary Mallaber - Drummer for The Steve Miller Band born in 1946