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Lady Augusta Ada Byron

Lady Lovelace (Augusta Ada Byron)

Augusta Ada Byron was born in 1815.

Considered in many senses to be the world’s first computer programmer.

Met Charles Babbage in 1834.

Was very interested in Babbage’s “Difference Machine” because of it’s “universality”.

Babbage and Lady Lovelace became life-long friends.

In 1834, Charles Babbage began working on another calculating machine.

Augusta Ada Byron married the Earl of Lovelace, and became Lady Lovelace.

Luigi Menabrea wrote an article in French on the machine, which Lady Lovelace translated into English. Babbage suggested that she add her own notes. The notes were twice as long as the original article. It was titled, “The Sketch of the Analytical Engine”.

Ada’s notes were divided into sections from A to G.

Lady Augusta Ada Byron died of cervical cancer in 1852 at the age of 36.