Born on December 10, 1815, as Augusta Ada Byron, Lovelace was a pioneer of computing science. Lovelace collaborated with inventor Charles Babbage on his general purpose computing machine, the Analytical Engine, which is considered to be the first published algorithm developed specifically to be used on a computer. Her father was Lord Byron, one of the greatest British poets in …
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