Ada Lovelace

Portrait of Ada Lovelace, Alla prima, Scroll Painting

Here are a few short facts about Ada Lovelace:

  • Born on December 10, 1815
  • Daughter of Lord Byron and Anne Isabella Milbanke
  • First computer programmer in the modern sense
  • Published “Notes on Life and Letters of Lady Noailles” (1841) and “A Day’s Journey to Althorpe” (1836)
  • Collaborated with Charles Babbage on his proposed mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine
  • Co-authored the book “Notes on a Method of Making Tabulations for Differentially Governed Machines”
  • Published her most famous work, “Scientific Memoirs / Selected from the Transactions of Various Societies” (1843), which contains her poem about the Analytical Engine, “On the Analytical Engine”.

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