How Ada Lovelace, Lord Byron’s Daughter, Became the World’s First Computer Programmer

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Posted on November 29, 2015 9:05 am in All Neat-o

How Ada Lovelace, Lord Byron’s Daughter, Became the World’s First Computer Programmer (brainpickings.org)

How a young woman with the uncommon talent of applying poetic imagination to science envisioned the Symbolic Medea that would become the modern computer, sparking the birth of the digital age.

Ada's Algorithm by James Essinger.

Ada’s Algorithm by James Essinger.

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