Lovelace, (Augusta) Ada King, countess of
- Lovelace, (Augusta) Ada King, countess of
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orig. Lady Augusta Ada Byron
born Dec. 10, 1815, London, Eng.
died Nov. 29, 1852, London
English mathematician.
Her father was the poet Lord
Byron. In 1835 she married William King, 8th Baron King; when he was created an earl in 1838, she became a countess. She became interested in Charles Babbage's analytical machines as early as 1833, and in 1843 she translated and annotated an article about them by Luigi Federico Menabrea. For creating a program for Babbage's prototype of a digital computer, she has been called the first computer programmer. The programming language
Ada is named for her.
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