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the woman who wrote software before anyone had built a computer to run it on.
means a byword for a visionary programmer, after ada lovelace, who saw computing as more than arithmetic.
from ada lovelace, byron's daughter and countess of lovelace, annotated charles babbage's analytical engine in 1843 with notes three times longer than the original text, including what's recognized as the first published algorithm.
her fatherlord byron, who she never really knew
her insightmachines could manipulate symbols, not just numbers
programming languageada, named for her, used by the pentagon
died young36, same age as byron, cancer
for instance
ada lovelace day — annual october event celebrating women in stem since 2009
note g — her algorithm for bernoulli numbers, considered the first computer program
ada programming language — us department of defense standard from 1980