Augusta Ada King Countess of Lovelace
was an English mathematician and writer, chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's proposed mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine. She was the first to recognise that the machine had applications beyond pure calculation, and to have published the first algorithm intended to be carried out by such a machine. As a result, she is often regarded as the first computer programmer.
Here is a timeline of Ada Lovelace's life:
1815
December 10
Born under the name Ada Augusta Byron , she was the only child of the poet George Gordon the 6th (Lord Byron) and his wife, Anne Isabella "Annabella" Milbanke (Baroness Wentworth).
1816
January 16
Parents Separate.
1824
April 19
Lord Byron (Ada'a father) dies in a war in Greece.
1828
January 1
Ada designs a flying.
1829
October 1
Ada gets measles and is unable to leave bed.
1832
April 1
Recovers from measles.
1833
January 1
Ada meets Charles Babbage. He disscusses he's difference engine with her. She is inspire by his words.
1835
July 8
Ada weds William King.
1836
May 12
Ada's first child is born.
1838
June 30
Ada becomes Countess of Lovelace.
1843
August 1
Ada's translation and Notes on the analytical engine are published.
1852
November 27
Lovelace died at the age of thirty-six from uterine cancer and bloodletting by her physicians. She was buried, at her request, next to her father at the Church of St. Mary Magdalene in Hucknall, Nottingham.
"In almost every computation a great variety of arrangements for the succession of the processes is possible, and various considerations must influence the selections amongst them for the purposes of a calculating engine."
- Ada Lovelace