Augusta Ada King,
Countess of Lovelace (10 December 1815 – 27 November
1852), born Augusta Ada Byron and now commonly known as Ada Lovelace, was an English mathematician and writer chiefly
known for her work on Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine. Her notes on the engine include what is recognized as the first algorithm intended to
be processed by a machine. Because of this, she is often considered the world's
first computer programmer.
Ada was the only
legitimate child of the poet Lord Byron (with Anne
Isabella Byron). She
had no relationship with her father, who separated from her mother just a month
after Ada was born, and four months later he left England forever and died in
Greece in 1823 when she was eight. As a young adult, she took an interest in
mathematics, and in particular Babbage's work on the analytical engine. Between
1842 and 1843, she translated an article by Italian mathematician Luigi Menabrea on the
engine, which she supplemented with a set
of notes of her own. These notes contain what is
considered the first computer program – that is, an algorithm encoded for
processing by a machine. Ada's notes are important in the early history of computers. She also foresaw the capability of computers to go beyond mere
calculating or number-crunching while others, including Babbage himself,
focused only on these capabilities.
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