27 Nov
2018
27 Nov
'18
3:01 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