Born: Dec 10, 1815, Piccadilly, Middlesex (now in London), England. Died:Nov 17, 1852, Marylebone, London, England

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Lady Ada Lovelace's father was Lord Byron, the famous poet. Her parents separated soon after her birth and she never knew either of them. She was educated by private tutors, advanced study in mathematics being provided by Augustus De Morgan.

In 1833 Augusta became interested in Babbage's analytic engine. Ten years later she produced an annotated translation of Menabrea's Notions sur la machine analytique de Charles Babbage (1842). In the annotations she describes how the Analytical Engine could be programmed to compute Bernoulli (Jacob Bernoulli) numbers. She described the Analytical Engine saying

the Analytical Engine weaves algebraic patterns, just as the Jacquard-loom weaves flowers and leaves.

Some have called her the first computer programmer. A modern programming language, Ada, has been named in her honor.