27 Nov
2019
27 Nov
'19
10:22 a.m.
Augusta Ada King-Noel, Countess of Lovelace, was lost to us in 1852 from
uterine cancer. Regarded as the first computer programmer and a mathematical
prodigy (when such things were unseemly for a mere woman), she was the daughter
of Lord Byron, and a friend of Charles Babbage.
-- Dave