The reason Ada Lovelace became known as the first programmer was through her work with Charles Babbage. In this she produced notes on his – sadly never built – Analytical Engine.

Lovelace's name was also adopted for the Ada programming language, which first appeared in 1980, with inspiration drawn from the likes of Pascal. While niche compared to popular modern languages ...

"It's not necessarily [an] electronic computer. I think it's more like a mechanic computer." She's thinking of Ada Lovelace, also known as the Countess of Lovelace, born in 1815.

Plans have been drawn up to celebrate gifted 19th Century mathematician Ada Lovelace in the town near to where she lived as a ...

Lord Byron’s daughter, Ada Lovelace (1815–52), is often mentioned as the first computer programmer for describing an algorithm computing the Bernoulli numbers and lauded for annotating her ...

The device, called a “difference engine,” is integral to Lauren Gunderson’s play, which pays homage to Ada Byron Lovelace, one of the first computer programmers. The real-life Lovelace, a brilliant ...

Image: Hulton Archive/Getty Images "Ada Lovelace is Lord Byron's child, and her mother, Lady Byron, did not want her to turn out to be like her father, a romantic poet," says Isaacson.