The Daughter of Lord Byron Who Wrote the First Computer Program in 1843 for a Machine That Was Never Built
Ada Lovelace's 1843 translation-and-commentary on Luigi Menabrea's paper on Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine contains, in Note G, what is now considered the first published computer program. The Analytical Engine was never built in Babbage's lifetime. Ada died of cancer at 36, the same age as her father.
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