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Try your best to crunch some numbers after each round.

Note: we rounded up the measurements featured in Ali’s recipe, after converting from milliliters to ounces, for easy pouring) : (By the way, Ali won the World Class Great Britain 2015 cocktail competition.) This digital twist on a Tom Collins was added up by Ali Reynolds, bar manager at the Hawksmoor Spitalfields, in Ada’s hometown of London, UK. And when coders designed the special computer language used by the Department of Defense… they called it “ Ada.” The Byronary Code Photo credit: Elana Lepkowski, Each October, the tech world celebrates Ada Lovelace Day. But in the last few decades, folks finally recognized her work. Many now consider it the first computer program.Īda died of cancer at age 36, and for a while was remembered mainly as Lord Byron’s kid. Who’d drawn up one of the first computer designs in history.īabbage nicknamed Ada “ The Enchantress of Numbers.” A title she earned after writing up notes on an invention of his called “The Analytical Engine.” Those notes included an algorithm designed to make it spit out special numbers. And by 18, she formed an “ intense intellectual partnership” with a math genius twice her age: Charles Babbage. By age 12, she’d written a book about the mechanics of flight. Turns out, Ada was a natural math and engineering geek. Portrait of Ada Lovelace, via Wikimedia Commons And she figured the best way to ensure that was to get the kid rigorous training… in logic and math. But Anne was determined her daughter would be the opposite of mad, poetic Byron. So she, not surprisingly, divorced Byron almost as soon as Ada was born. Who on the plus side was a literary genius… and on the minus side was famous for being in debt, and sleeping around - at one point, rumor had it, with his own half-sister.Īda’s Mother Anne, meanwhile, was an intellectual and kind of a prude. To begin with, her Dad was the great British poet Lord Byron.

But her life… didn’t exactly go by the numbers.

It’s about a tech trailblazer you might not’ve heard of, who was born this week back in 1815.Īda Lovelace was one of the most groundbreaking mathematicians ever. They’re always posting fascinating forgotten stories of the past, and this one first appeared there (we adapted it for radio). This week we inaugurate a beautiful friendship with the digital cabinet of curiosities called Atlas Obscura.