In 1847, at the age of just twenty-seven, Ada Lovelace became the world’s first computer programmer—more than a century before the first computer was even built. This almost sounds like a myth, or the ...

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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 ...

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