Ada lovelace
ada lovelace
person
(1811-1852) the daughter of lord byron, who became the world’s first programmer while cooperating with charles babbage on the design of his mechanical computing engines in the mid-1800s.
the language ada was named after her.
[“ada, enchantress of numbers prophit of the computer age”, betty alexandra toole (http://well.com/user/adatoole)].
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(1999-07-17)
contemporary examples
it also harkened back to ada lovelace, who -sserted that machines would be able to do almost anything, except think on their own.
you can look it up: the wikipedia story walter isaacson october 18, 2014
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