December 10, 2015, marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Ada, Countess of Lovelace(1815-1852), a remarkable person who was charming, temperamental, inquisitive, and intelligent.
2015年11月10号是阿达·洛芙莱斯女伯爵(1815-1852)诞辰200周年的日子。一位迷人，有气质的，充满好奇心和智慧的卓越不凡的人。
Lovelace lived at a time when women couldn't vote or attend university, but as a member of the upper class, her friends and teachers included some of the greatest thinkers of the time: Charles Babbage, Augustus De Morgan, Charles Dickens, Michael Faraday, and Mary Somerville.
洛芙莱斯生活在一个女性不允许投票和上大学的时代。但作为上层社会的一份子，他的朋友和老师中有那个时代最有名的学者：查尔斯·巴贝奇， 奥古斯都·德·摩根， 查尔斯·狄更斯， 迈克尔·法拉第以及玛丽·萨默维尔。
Lovelace was the only legitimate daughter of the famous poet Lord Byron. Though her father abandoned her when she was only one month old, she remained fascinated by him all her life. Her overbearing mother, Annabella Milbanke, steered her away from the arts and towards mathematics and science, afraid Lovelace would develop what she perceived as her estranged husband's "madness".
洛芙莱斯是诗人拜伦勋爵唯一的合法子嗣。虽然她的父亲在她只有一个月大的时候抛弃了她，但是在她的一生中依然执迷于他的父亲。安娜贝尔·米尔班克，她那克制的母亲，引导她学习数学和科学从而远离艺术。因为她害怕洛芙莱斯会发展出她从那已经疏远了的丈夫身上感受到的——“疯狂”。
Lovelace was a woman of fierce originality and intellectual interests. Her ideas went beyond those of pioneer Charles Babbage, who saw computers as number manipulators, and focused on the creative possibilities and limitations of computers - the very issues we wrestle with today.
洛芙莱斯是一位极具原创精神和拥有着高智商兴趣的女性。她的想法超前于先驱查尔斯·巴贝奇。她将计算机看做是数字的操纵者，并且着眼于计算机的充满创新的可能性和局限性。时至今日，我们依然在努力解决这些局限性带来的问题。
Inspired by Babbage's Analytical Engine, Lovelace said:
"[The Analytical Engine] might act upon other things besides number...supposing, for instance, that the fundamental relations of pitched sounds in the science of harmony and of musical composition were susceptible of such expression and adaptations, the engine might compose elaborate and scientific pieces of music of any degree of complexity or extent."
受到了巴贝奇的分析机的启发后，她说：
“（分析机）可能可以用于除了数字以外的事情……试想一下，例如，在研究和谐的科学和音乐的构成中那些高音之间的基本关系。它们会随着表达和改编而变化。分析机也许可以在某种程度和复杂度上去构建这些精巧的、系统性的音乐片段。”
