Computer science has come a long way. The very first electronic digital computer is credited to physicist and mathematician John Vincent Atanasoff and his graduate student Clifford Berry, who built the life-changing technology at Iowa State University from 1939 to 1942.

And while the computer as we know it today evolved years later, the groundwork for it all began in the 19th century with one woman: Ada Lovelace.

Lovelace is credited as the first computer programmer. Her work involved writing detailed instructions to be programmed into first automatic digital computer, known as the ‘Analytical Engine’, created by her mentor and “father of computers” Charles Babbage.

Besides being a brilliant mathematician, she was also the daughter of British poet and “She Walks in Beauty” author, Lord Byron.

Who was Ada Lovelace?

Born Augusta Ada Byron in London in December 1815, she was the daughter of Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron) and his wife Anne Isabella Byron. Her parents separated shortly after her........

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