ADA BYRON
LADY LOVELACE

Origins and education

The only daughter of the great English poet Lord Byron and Annabella Milbanke, an English aristocrat who studied mathematics and astronomy.
She received a rigorous scientific education to steer her away from her father's "poetic madness".

Your achievements

• Your first algorithm (1843): She published notes on Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine. In "Note G," she included detailed instructions for calculating Bernoulli numbers, considered the first computer program designed to be executed by a machine.
• Computer vision: She envisioned that machines could process any symbol (such as musical notes or images), anticipating modern computing by a century
• Recognition (1953): Her notes were published, and the Analytical Engine was recognized as a precursor to computers.
• Legacy: In 1979 the U.S. Department of Defense named the ADA programming language in her honor.

Personal life

She married William King-Noel on July 8, 1835, at the age of 19. He would later become the first Earl of Lovelace.
Through this marriage, she obtained the title of Countess of Lovelace. She had three children: Byron, Anne Isabella, and Ralph Gordon.

Death

She died on November 27, 1852, in London, at the age of 36. The cause of her death was uterine cancer.