Lovelace & Gilbreth

Why are Ada Lovelace and Lillian Gilbreth important to know about for IXD History?

• Why are Ada Lovelace and Lillian Gilbreth important to know about for IXD History?
  by John Liu
  February 14, 2024
  Ada Lovelace and Lillian Gilbreth have carved indelible marks in the annals of interaction design, each pioneering in vastly different yet complementary ways. Lovelace, heralded as the world’s first computer programmer, provided the foundational vision for computing that goes beyond mere calculation, suggesting a more nuanced interaction between humans and… Read more: Why are Ada Lovelace and Lillian Gilbreth important to know about for IXD History?
• Why are Ada Lovelace and Lillian Gilbreth important to know about for IXD History?
  by Janette Olmiala
  February 13, 2024
  Ada Lovelace was the world’s first computer programmer. In her annotations on an article about the engine, she wrote an algorithm imagining computers could one day have the capability to process both numbers and symbols. She believed they had the potential to do more than just numerical calculations, envisioning that… Read more: Why are Ada Lovelace and Lillian Gilbreth important to know about for IXD History?
• Importance of Lovelace and Gilbreth in IxD history
  by Grace Cao
  February 7, 2024
  The importance of Ada Lovelace and Lillian Gilbreth in the course of Interaction Design history is valued not only in recognizing the unsung history of women in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math but also because of their influential contributions to what paved the way for the technologies… Read more: Importance of Lovelace and Gilbreth in IxD history
• Thoughts On Lovelace & Gilbreth
  by Jiayi (Nicole) Xie
  February 6, 2024
  Exploring further, Ada Lovelace’s analytical mind and her contributions to computing not only demonstrate her foresight into the machine’s potential to transcend simple arithmetic but also highlight the importance of conceptualizing the future of human-computer interaction. Her notes on the Analytical Engine include what is essentially the first description of… Read more: Thoughts On Lovelace & Gilbreth
• Why are Ada Lovelace and Lillian Gilbreth important to know about for IXD History?
  by Lynn Lin
  February 4, 2024
  Ada Lovelace and Lillian Gilbreth are both pivotal figures in the history of Interaction Design. Ada Lovelace was the world’s first computer programmer. Her vision for computers was not limited to computation and number crunching, but also to the creation of music and art, and Ada Lovelace’s contributions emphasized the… Read more: Why are Ada Lovelace and Lillian Gilbreth important to know about for IXD History?
• Ada Lovelace and Lillian Gilbreth are important to know for IXD history
  by Hannah He
  February 3, 2024
  Female figures like Ada Lovelace and Lillian Gillbreth are essential to know for IXD history, but not limited to IXD history. Firstly, it represents how women lived and acted earlier. Their contributions were given to their husband when they were supposed to be part of the design process. In some… Read more: Ada Lovelace and Lillian Gilbreth are important to know for IXD history
• Lovelace and Gilbreth
  by Ziqi Zhang
  January 31, 2024
  From PART1 you can learn about the story of Ada Lovelace (Ada Lovelace is known as the first computer programmer for her work on Babbage’s Analytical Engine) and Charles Babbage. This is not only the early history of computer science, but also the first exploration of computer science. Modern computing… Read more: Lovelace and Gilbreth