Victorian-era British socialite Ada Lovelace was one of the world's earliest - and unlikeliest - computer pioneers. The estranged daughter of the infamous eighteenth century British poet Lord Byron, Lovelace was both an imaginative writer and talented mathematician who foresaw the rise of the digital age more than a century before it became a reality. In CALCULATING ADA: THE COUNTESS OF COMPUTING, Dr. Hannah Fry tells the story of Ada's short yet remarkable life, from her early academic prowess to her famed collaborations with Charles Babbage, the man popularly known as the "father of computers."
Length: 58 minutes
