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    • Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (née Byron; 10 December 1815 – 27 November 1852), also known as Ada Lovelace, was an English mathematician and writer chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's proposed mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine. She was the first to recognise that the machine had applications b… See more

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    Biography

    Lord Byron expected his child to be a "glorious boy" and was disappointed when Lady Byron gave birth to a girl. The child was named after Byron's half-sister, Augusta Leigh, and was called "Ada" by Byron hims… See more

    BornHon. Augusta Ada Byron · 10 December 1815 · London, England
    Died27 November 1852 (aged 36) · Marylebone, London, England
    SpouseWilliam King-Noel, 1st Earl of Lovelace · (m. 1835)
    ChildrenByron King-Noel, Viscount Ockham · Anne Blunt, 15th Baroness Wentworth · Ralph King-Milbanke, 2nd Earl of Lovelace
    Work

    Throughout her life, Lovelace was strongly interested in scientific developments and fads of the day, including phrenology and mesmerism. After her work with Babbage, Lovelace continued to work on other projects. In … See more

    Commemoration

    The computer language Ada, created on behalf of the United States Department of Defense, was named after Lovelace. The reference manual for the language was approved on 10 December 1980 and the Departmen… See more

    In popular culture

    Lovelace is portrayed in Romulus Linney's 1977 play Childe Byron. In Tom Stoppard's 1993 play Arcadia, the precocious teenage genius Thomasina Coverly—a character "apparently based" on Ada Lovelace (the play also in… See more

    Publications

    • Lovelace, Ada King. Ada, the Enchantress of Numbers: A Selection from the Letters of Lord Byron's Daughter and her Description of the First Computer. Mill Valley, CA: Strawberry Press, 1992. ISBN 978-0-912647-09-8… See more

    Further reading

    • Jennifer Chiaverini, 2017, Enchantress of Numbers, Dutton, 426 pp.
    • Christopher Hollings, Ursula Martin, and Adrian Rice, 2018, Ada Lovelace: The Making of a Computer Scientist, Bodleian Library, 114 pp.… See more

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  1. Ada Lovelace
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    Ada Lovelace (born December 10, 1815, Piccadilly Terrace, Middlesex [now in London], England—died November 27, 1852, Marylebone, London) was an English mathematician, an associate of Charles Babbage, for whose prototype of a digital computer she created a program. She has been called the first computer programmer.

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    Ada Lovelace has been called the world’s first “computer programmer.” In the 1840s, she wrote the world’s first machine algorithm for an early computing machine that existed only on paper. Lovelace was a brilliant mathematician, thanks in part to her privileged birth.

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    Ada Lovelace (born Augusta Ada Byron; December 10, 1815- November 27, 1852) was an English mathematician who has been called the first computer programmer for writing an algorithm, or a set of operating instructions, for the early computing machine built by Charles Babbage in 1821.

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    By these commonly held definitions of computers and programming, Ada Lovelace (1815–1852) is known as the world’s first computer programmer. Lovelace combined the power of a general-purpose computer with a specific programming language to perform a computational task that wasn’t “built-in” in the computer’s design.

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    According to many people, the first computer programmer was the English noblewoman Ada Lovelace. In 1843, she published a sequence of steps to perform using a computing machine designed by her friend, Charles Babbage. These notes are considered the first computer program.

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    Who was the first computer programmer?
    Though Lovelace is often referred to as the first computer programmer, some biographers, computer scientists and historians of computing suggest otherwise. Allan G. Bromley, in the 1990 article Difference and Analytical Engines: All but one of the programs cited in her notes had been prepared by Babbage from three to seven years earlier.

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    Was Ada Lovelace the first computer programmer?
    In her notes, Lovelace described how the Analytical Engine would carry out algorithms. She even gave an example—a string of commands that would make the machine calculate Bernoulli numbers. Today, this is considered the first computer program ever written. That makes Ada Lovelace the world’s first computer programmer.

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    Who was the first person to write a computer program?
    Ada Lovelace is credited as being the first person to describe or write a computer program. In 1843, she described an algorithm to compute Bernoulli numbers using the Analytical Engine. The Hollerith tabulating machine was invented by Herman Hollerith in 1889, allowing for data to be programmatically counted and tabulated.

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    Did Ada Lovelace write the first computer algorithm?
    A version of this story ran in 2015; it has been updated for 2023. In the 1840s, Ada Lovelace wrote the world’s first machine algorithm for an early computer that existed only on paper.

    Remembering Ada Lovelace, the First ‘Computer Programmer’

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    Ada Lovelace: The First Computer Programmer

    WEBIn 1833 Ada Lovelace met the mathematician Charles Babbage, who had designed a calculating machine called the Difference Engine. Lovelace was inspired by the prototype of the Difference Engine and became …

     
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    WEBSep 11, 2024 — Ada Lovelace is considered the first computer programmer. Even though she wrote about a computer, the Analytical Engine, that was never built, she realized that the computer could follow a series of …

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    Remembering Ada Lovelace, the First ‘Computer …

    WEBNov 1, 2023 — Ada Lovelace has been called the world’s first “computer programmer.” In the 1840s, she wrote the world’s first machine algorithm for an early computing machine that existed only on paper.

  6. New York Times
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    Ada Lovelace, Mathematician Who Wrote the First …

    WEBMar 8, 2018 — A century before the dawn of the computer age, Ada Lovelace imagined the modern-day, general-purpose computer. It could be programmed to follow instructions, she wrote in 1843.

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    WEBAbout a century before Konrad Zuse designed the first programmable computing machine, in the 1840s, Ada Lovelace wrote the first computer programme in the world. From a modern perspective, her work is …

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    Biography of Ada Lovelace, First Computer …

    WEBFeb 19, 2021 — Ada Lovelace (born Augusta Ada Byron; December 10, 1815- November 27, 1852) was an English mathematician who has been called the first computer programmer for writing an algorithm, or a set of …

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    Ada Lovelace: The World’s First Computer …

    WEBMar 22, 2023 — However, not everyone knows that this idea of universal computation dates to long before the first programmable, general-purpose digital computer was introduced in the 1940s. This concept goes back to …

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    Ada Lovelace: The First Computer Programmer? - History of Data …

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    Ada Lovelace, an English mathematician, wrote the …

    WEBAda Lovelace, an English mathematician and daughter of the poet Lord Byron, wrote the first algorithm for a machine in the 1800s and is considered the first computer programmer. Lovelace worked with Charles Babbage, …

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    Ada Lovelace - National Geographic Kids

    WEBFeb 26, 2021 — Lovelace died on November 10, 1852, more than a hundred years before her notes were rediscovered. But because of her advanced way of thinking, she’s often considered the first computer...

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    The First Computer Programmer - Codecademy

    WEBJul 27, 2021 — By these commonly held definitions of computers and programming, Ada Lovelace (1815–1852) is known as the world’s first computer programmer. Lovelace combined the power of a general …

  15. Wikipedia
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    Who Was the First Computer Programmer? - Wonderopolis

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    Lovelace, Ada Byron, Countess of (1815–1852) - Encyclopedia.com

  18. Brown University Department of Computer Science
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    A History of Computer Programming Languages - Brown University

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  21. HP
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    Computer History: A Timeline of Computer Programming Languages

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    A Brief History of Computer Programming Languages [#Infographic]

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    CS101: The History of Programming Languages | Saylor Academy

  24. Wikipedia
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  25. arXiv.org
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