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Ada Lovelace
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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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Grand old lady Ada Hawkes raised a glass with friends and relatives to celebrate her 100th birthday.
Ada, 100, hits right note by Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England)
Admiral Robert Fitzroy, who introduced storm warnings and was the father of the modern British Met office; Lady Ada Lovelace, who was the daughter of Lord Byron and did a lot of the early programmes for Charles Babbage and his analytical engine so, in effect, she was the mother of computer programming.
A dinner date with: Peter Cockcroft by Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England)
 
 
 
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