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Ada Lovelace
(redirected from Ada Byron)

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(person)Ada Lovelace - (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].
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BENJAMIN WOOLLEY Born of the fleeting marriage between the rational-minded Annabella Milbanke and the rebellious poet Lord Byron, Augusta Ada Byron was destined to live a life betwixt the polarities of her time.
The Bride of Science: Romance, Reason, and Byron's Daughter by Science News
The workshop is being co-sponsored by the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences and the Ada Byron Research Center on Diversity in Computing and IT.
Workshop on Multiple Pathways to an IT Career to Be Held at UC ... by Business Wire
 
 
 
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