"Enchantress of Number: Ada Lovelace and the Dawn of the Computer Age," A Math Circus Event

More than a century before the appearance of any general purpose electronic digital computer, a British aristocrat penned a detailed algorithm for computing a mathematically important sequence on such a machine. Now considered by many as the world’s first computer programmer, Ada Lovelace was best known in her lifetime as the only legitimate child of the great Romantic poet, George Gordon Lord Byron. This talk will be an introduction to the life and work of Ada Byron Lovelace. The Middlebury Actors Workshop will present Ada and the Engine, a play about Ada at the Town Hall Theatre April 11 – 14