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Countess of Lovelace, 1815-1852

The First Computer Programmer

Ada Byron (Lady Lovelace): Augusta Ada Byron was born December 10, 1815 the daughter of the poet Lord Byron. Ada suggested to Babbage writing a plan for how his Analytical Engine might calculate Bernoulli numbers. This plan is now regarded as the first "computer program."
More pictures of Ada can be found at the following locations:

You can continue on to the following pages, or you can read one of two biographies of Ada that I downloaded.

Also, I have the official DOD version of how the programming language came to be named.

Note: I cannot possibly keep all of these links current. If you find one that doesn't work, I'd appreciate you .

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