Today is Ada Lovelace Day, the first of its kind. Who is she I hear you ask? She was the first female “programmer” who lived in the early 19th Century. She foresaw a computer’s potential, that is, not just to be a machine that “number-crunched” and calculated. In her short life (she died at the age of 36) she translated memoirs on Charles Babbage’s newest machine, the Analytical Engine. With additional detailed notes, historians agree that this was the first computer program. Her other claim to fame was the fact that she was the daughter of the poet Lord Byron.
