Posted October 11, 2022
Considered by many to be the world’s first computer programmer, Ada Lovelace was an English mathematician and writer born in 1815. She collaborated with inventor Charles Babbage on his general purpose computing machine, the Analytical Engine, and published what we would now call a computer program to generate Bernoulli Numbers. Whilst Babbage had written fragments of programs before, Lovelace's was the most complete, most elaborate, and the first published.
More importantly, she was the first person to foresee the creative potential of the Engine. Lovelace explained how it could do so much more than merely calculate numbers, and could potentially create music and art, given the right programming and inputs. Her vision of computing's possibilities was unmatched by any of her peers and went unrecognized for a century. That mistake was however rightfully fixed, and now October 11th is known as Ada Lovelace Day - an international celebration of the achievements of women in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM). It aims to increase the profile of women in STEM and, in doing so, create new role models who will encourage more girls into these careers and support women who are already working in them.
Because of Ada’s accomplishments, we can today enjoy what we love the most - video games. We would like to thank her and celebrate this special day in a true GOG fashion: by giving you guys special deals on awesome puzzle and simulation titles that would undoubtedly interest Ada Lovelace herself!
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More importantly, she was the first person to foresee the creative potential of the Engine. Lovelace explained how it could do so much more than merely calculate numbers, and could potentially create music and art, given the right programming and inputs. Her vision of computing's possibilities was unmatched by any of her peers and went unrecognized for a century. That mistake was however rightfully fixed, and now October 11th is known as Ada Lovelace Day - an international celebration of the achievements of women in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM). It aims to increase the profile of women in STEM and, in doing so, create new role models who will encourage more girls into these careers and support women who are already working in them.
Because of Ada’s accomplishments, we can today enjoy what we love the most - video games. We would like to thank her and celebrate this special day in a true GOG fashion: by giving you guys special deals on awesome puzzle and simulation titles that would undoubtedly interest Ada Lovelace herself!
Check out what we have in store for you and build a cat-to-human translation system as a machine learning specialist in while True: learn () (33% off), take on the role of a Reactor Engineer and construct elaborate factories to transform raw materials into valuable chemical products in SpaceChem (75% off) or automate swarms of office workers to solve puzzles inside your very own parallel computer made of people in 7 Billion Human (50% off)!
Of course, that’s not even half of it - check out all the discounted titles here. Our sale celebration lasts until October 17th, 1 PM UTC!
