💻 Ada Lovelace Prize for Most Kills in a Day
Ada Lovelace (1815–1852) is widely celebrated as the world’s first computer programmer. The daughter of the poet Lord Byron and mathematician Annabella Milbanke, she inherited both creativity and analytical skill, which she applied in her groundbreaking work with Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine, a proposed mechanical general-purpose computer. In her famous notes on the Engine, Lovelace not only translated and expanded on the work of others but also introduced the idea that such a machine could go beyond number-crunching to manipulate symbols and create music — an astonishingly modern vision of computing. Her insights laid the conceptual foundation for the digital age, making her a pioneering figure in both mathematics and computer science.
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Prize: One ticket of choice to Buckingham Palace, St Paul’s, or the Tower of London.
Tie-break rules:
– Winner is whoever achieved that number of kills in a day most often.
– If still tied, shortest time between first and last kill on that day wins.