{"id":42698,"date":"2023-10-20T15:23:08","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/startupsmart.test\/2023\/10\/20\/ada-lovelace-and-the-role-models-who-guide-women-towards-a-life-less-ordinary-startupsmart\/"},"modified":"2023-10-20T15:23:08","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:23:08","slug":"ada-lovelace-and-the-role-models-who-guide-women-towards-a-life-less-ordinary-startupsmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/uncategorized\/ada-lovelace-and-the-role-models-who-guide-women-towards-a-life-less-ordinary-startupsmart\/","title":{"rendered":"Ada Lovelace and the role models who guide women towards a life less ordinary – StartupSmart"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/em><\/span>A century before the first computers, Ada Lovelace wrote a study on the potential of Charles Babbage\u2019s yet-to-be-built Analytical Engine. Babbage\u2019s Analytical Engine is regarded as the world\u2019s first computer and Lovelace the world\u2019s first computer programmer. She foresaw how Babbage\u2019s design could be a general purpose computer, that it might manipulate not merely numbers but also music, even one day composing complex and scientific pieces. The Analytical Engine, she wrote: \u201cweaves algebraic patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves\u201d.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Almost 200 years on, much of what she proposed is now possible. Software today can compute aspects of our understanding of music, while models of harmony and other musical elements can encompass music of ever increasing complexity. Software can analyse compositions and extract the underlying musical structures.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n With the right software and inputs, computers can indeed now generate complex pieces \u2013 following in the style of, say, classical composer Toru Takemitsu or jazz master Art Tatum \u2013 by learning or mimicking recurring musical patterns.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n