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Fill the blanks with suitable words from the box. Read the complete text aloud, in turns. •astronomer •science •journal •original •article •mentor •contribution •honors •grade •newspaper •initials •programmer Augusta Ada Byron, Countess of Lovelace, better known as "Ada Lovelace" was the daughter of famed. poet Lord Byron. She translated an (1)..........on an invention by Charles Babbage, and added her own comments. Because she introduced many computer concepts, Lovelace is considered the first. computer (2)............ Ada Lovelace was born on December 10, 1815. At her mother's insistence, Lady Anne Isabella Milbanke Byron, tutors taught her mathematics and (3)............From early on, Lovelace showed a talent for numbers and language. She received instructions from Mary Somerville, a Scottish (4)...........and mathematician. Somerville was one of the first women to be admitted into the Royal Astronomical Society. Around the age of 17, Ada met Charles Babbage, a mathematician and an inventor. The pair became friends, and the much older Babbage served as a (5).............to Lovelace. Through Babbage, Lovelace began studying advanced mathematics with University of London professor Augustus de Morgan. Lovelace was later asked to translate an article on Babbage's analytical engine that had been written by Italian engineer Luigi Federico Menabrea for a Swiss journal. After checking the translation, Babbage found something interesting Lovelace not only translated the (6)............. French text into English, but also added her own thoughts and ideas on the machine. After completing the translation, Lovelace published her work in an English science (7) ..............in 1843. Lovelace used only the (8). ..........."A.A.L." for Augusta Ada Lovelace, in the publication In her notes, Lovelace described how codes could be created for the device to handle letters and symbols along with numbers. She also theorized a method for the engine to repeat a series of instructions, a process known as looping that computer programs use today. Lovelace also offered up other forward thinking concepts in the article. For her work, Lovelace is often considered to be the first computer programmer. Lovelace's (9)............to the field of computer science were not discovered until the 1950s. Her notes were reintroduced to the world by B.V. Bowden, who republished them in Faster Than Thought A Symposium on Digital Computing Machines in 1953. Since then, Ada has received many posthumous (10)...........for her work. In 1980, the U.S. Department of Defense named a newly developed computer language "Ada," after Lovelace. (4)..........

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