London: The 197th birthday of world’s first computer programmer Augusta Ada King, famously known as Ada Lovelace is being celebrated with doodle on Google homepages across the world.
Here are the few points you should know about her:
- Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, was born 10 December 1815, in London.
- The daughter of Romantic poet Lord Byron, Lovelace never knew her father, as he separated from her mother, Annabella Milbanke, when Lovelace was a month old.
- It was Milbanke who first encouraged her daughter to study maths, partly in an effort to prevent her from becoming a delinquent poet like her father.
- Young Ada proved to have such a great aptitude for the subject that by her 20s, Charles Babbage, the inventor of some of the first modern computers, described her as ‘The Enchantress of Numbers’.
- In 1842, Lovelace took on the task of translating an article about Babbage’s Analytical Machine from the original Italian.
- Throughout the work, she appended a series of notes that grew to three times the length of the article itself. Today, those notes are recognised as the world’s first computer programme.
- Lovelace also predicted the development of more complex computers, saying “the engine might compose elaborate and scientific pieces of music of any degree of complexity or extent.”
- Lovelace died in London at the age of 36, on 27 November 1852.
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