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Ada Lovelace translated this article into English with the help of Charles Babbage and supplemented it with her own comments. Her notes show that Ada saw the potentials for a computer in the ...

Ada Lovelace, known as the first computer programmer, was born on Dec. 10, 1815, more than a century before digital electronic computers were developed. Lovelace has been hailed as a model for ...

Ada Lovelace, known as the first computer programmer, was born on Dec. 10, 1815, more than a century before digital electronic computers were developed. Lovelace has been hailed as a model for ...

Ada Lovelace, sometimes called the world’s first computer programmer, was also the first to foresee the potential of analytical machines. API/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images ...

In England, in 1842, Ada translated a short article by Italian mathematician Luigi Menabrea, which described the workings called ‘Sketch of the Analytical Engine, with Notes from the Translator’.

Ada, then in her late 20s and known as the Countess of Lovelace, was commissioned to translate the transcript into English. Lovelace added her own notes to the lecture, which ended up being three ...

Ada Lovelace envisioned in the early 19th century the possibilities of computing. In her notes, which ended up twice as long as the original article, Lovelace drew on different areas of her education.