What were Ada Byron's contributions to computing?

Ada Byron's Computer Contribution. Ada Byron, or Augusta Ada Byron, Countess of Lovelace, was born on December 10th, 1815 to the poet Lord Byron and Anne Isabella. Before her birth, her father and his friends expected that the baby would be “the glorious boy.” When Ada was born, everyone was disappointed. read more

Ada Byron was an English writer known for her work on the early mechanical general-purpose computer. Her notes include the first algorithm intended to be processed by a machine and, as such, Ada Byron is regarded as the world’s first computer programmer. read more

Ada Byron was the daughter of a brief marriage between the Romantic poet Lord Byron and Anne Isabelle Milbanke, who separated from Byron just a month after Ada was born. Four months later, Byron left England forever. read more

Ada Byron wrote a plan giving suggestions on how the Analytical Engine, created by Charles Babbage, could be used to produce a table of the Bernoulli numbers. In 1979, the U.S. Department of Defense developed a software program and named it "Ada" in honor of her contribution in computing. read more