1953 - Ada’s Notes Republished by B.V. Bowden

In 1953, a little more than one hundred years after her death, Lovelace’s notes on Babbage’s Analytical Engine were republished by B. V. Bowden, an English scientist and educationist in Faster Than Thought: A Symposium on Digital Computing Machines. “At a time when computer programming was slowly becoming an occupation, she began to be recognized as a programming pioneer and visionary” (Mind Matters).

“Bowden highlighted Ada’s notes where she wrote, that the engine ‘might act upon other things besides numbers, were objects found whose mutual fundamental relations could be expressed by those of the abstract science of operations…’. In other words, computers could paint pictures, compose melodies, manipulate sound and communicate. Technology caught up to [her] vision only a century later” (Hart).