Nerds You Should Know (cont)
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Ada Lovelace (1815-1852)
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- Correct name: Ada, Countess of Lovelace
- Daughter of English poet Lord Byron
- Privately schooled in mathematics and science
- Met Charles Babbage as a teenager (1833)
- Published notes on … (1843)
- Babbage's Analytical Engine
- algorithm for calculating "Bernoulli numbers" on AE
- which thus became the first published computer program
- Programming language Ada named after her (1980)
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