Augasta Ada King-Noel,,countess of Lovelace was an English mathematician and writer,chiefly known for her on Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer,the Analytical Engine.Her notes on the engine include what is recognized as the first algorithm intended to be carried out by a machine.As a result,she is often regarded as the first computer programming.
Ada contributes to the field of computer science were not discovered until the 1950s. Her notes were not reintroduced to the world by B.V.Bowden,who republished them in Faster Than Thought: A Syposium On Digital Computing Machine in 1953.Since then,Ada has received many posthumous honors for her work.In 1980,the U.S Department of defense named a newly developed computer language "Ada" after Lovelace.
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