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In 1843, a 27-year-old Ada Lovelace wrote the first-ever computer program; her work still inspires modern technology centuries later

Back in 1843, long before computers shaped the modern world, Ada Lovelace, a 27-year-old British mathematician, saw a future no one else did. She imagined a machine that didn’t just crunch numbers but ...
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Only Known Photos of World’s First Computer Programmer Ada Lovelace Go to Auction

One of the only known photos of computer programmer Ada Lovelace (1815-1852). This daguerreotype portrait was taken by Antoine Claudet. The only known photographs of Ada Lovelace — who wrote the world ...