Augusta Ada King, countess of Lovelace

1815 - 1852

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Ada Lovelace was a daughter of Lord Byron who became interested in Babbage's analytic engine and described how it could be programmed
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  1. Encyclopaedia Britannica
  2. Agnes Scott College
  3. Simon Fraser University
  4. The Ada Project
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  2. AWC (Many other links)
  3. Babbage pages
  4. San Diego
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