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Introduction

• I decided to write about Ada Augusta Byron, for she is a woman, in order to show you that not only men had great minds,but women too.

• Ada,Countess of Lovelace, mathematician and English society hostess

• She was born 1815 in London

• Mathematical tutoring from Augustus DeMorgan

• When she was 18, Ada heard lectures about Difference Engine ( Charles Babbage)

• 1842 Luigi Menabrea published a paper and described function of Analytical Engine

• 1843 Ada translated paper and added her own notes

• She understood Babbage’s machine better than Babbage himself

• He wrote the some complicated programs based on Ada’s comments

• The first computer programmer• The mother of computing• The mother of the modern computer• Inventor of the first computer language• Mathematicial genius• The programming language ADA is

named after her

Conclusion• She’s frequently portrayed as a

sexual libertino a compulsive gambler and drug addict who despised her children

• Ada died from cancer 1852 at the age of 37