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ADA LOVELANCE

 

She was a mathematician and writer of century XIX, she was considered the first programmer in history, Ada was born on december 10, 1815 in London Inglaterra, daughter of Annabella Milbanke and the poet Lord Byron, since a very young age Ada received math and science lessons, her mother always gave her a strict education.

 

The first steps towards programming

When she turned 18 Ada began attending high society parties, at one of the parties she met the mathematician Charles Babbage who was the inventor of the programmable calculating machine, the invention of Babbage excited Ada to think that one day not too distant machines will change people lives. In 1842 Ada published a scientific article describing Babbage's analytical machine, In the end Ada's notes were more famous than the itself article, one of the most famous notes of the article refers to the operation of what is known today as a computer algorithm and it was Ada who introduced that algorithm into Babbag's machine, also it was her idea that a machine could be programmed and reprogrammed to perform various functions and that it was capable of doing any task that could be expressed through symbols.

 

A premature death

Unfortunately Babbage was unable to convince the British government to finance the construction of his machine.  After Babbage's professional rejection, Ada Lovelace no longer worked. She died on November 27, 1852 from uterine cancer. I was 36 years old. Ada's algorithm was never implemented, it was not until 100 years later that an American engineer designed a computer closely linked to Babbage's work.