THE WORLD´S FIRST COMPUTER PROGRAMMER:ADA LOVELACE
Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (10 December 1815 – 27 November 1852), born Augusta Ada Byron and now commonly known as Ada Lovelace, was an English mathematician and writer chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine. Her notes on the engine include what is recognized as the first algorithm intended to be processed by a machine. Because of this, she is often considered the world's first computer programmer.
She was born 10 December 1815 to the poet Lord Byron and his wife Anne Isabella Byron. All of his other children were born out of wedlock. Byron separated from his wife a month after Ada was born and went to Greece four months later. He stayed in Greece and died when Ada was eight years old. She referred to herself as a "poetical scientist".
As a young adult, she took an interest in mathematics, and in particular Babbage's work on the analytical engine. Between 1842 and 1843, she translated an article by Italian mathematician Luigi Menabrea on the engine, which she supplemented with a set of notes of her own. These notes contain what is considered the first computer program – that is, an algorithm encoded for processing by a machine. Ada's notes are important in the early history of computers. She also foresaw the capability of computers to go beyond mere calculating or number-crunching while others, including Babbage himself, focused only on those capabilities.
