Ada Lovelace

Famous Birthday: December 10

World's First Computer Programmer

Countess Ada Lovelace (1815-1852), the only legitimate daughter of the famous English poet Lord Byron, was the first computer programmer.

Born Augusta Ada Byron in Marylebone, London, on December 10, 1815, was an English writer who worked on the analytical engine of English mathematician and inventor Charles Babbage. Countess of Lovelace (Augusta Ada King) studied astronomy, mathematics, Latin and music.  She later worked as a designer of arithmetical operations for calculating machines with Babbage.

Jay Forrester and System Dynamics

Science and Technology Dateline: July 14

Electrical and Computer Engineer, Management Specialist

Jay Wright Forrester is born on July 14, 1918, in Anselmo, Nebraska. He is best known as the founder of System Dynamics, which deals with the simulation of interactions between objects in dynamic systems. Forrester is an American electrical and computer engineer, systems scientist and was a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

System dynamics, of which he is a pioneer, is an approach to understanding the behaviour of complex systems over time. Significantly, it deals with internal feedback loops and time delays that affect the behaviour of the entire system, elements that help describe how seemingly simple systems display non-linearity.

Steve Jobs Loses Fight with Cancer

Apple's co-founder Steve Jobs succumbs to pancreatic cancer

October 6, 2011 - 11:43AM

Steve Jobs, 56-year old co-founder of Apple, modern era visionary, technology legend, has died. His family and Apple have announced his passing away.  Jobs, who stepped down recently as chief executive, had been suffering from pancreatic cancer.  Rest in peace, Steve Jobs.  He will surely be missed in the technology world he had given so much of.