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OCTOBER 19 - ADA LOVELACE

Though Ada Lovelace Day took place just six days ago, there’s no wrong time to celebrate the achievements of Augusta “Ada” King, Countess of Lovelace. A scientist before the word itself even existed, the mathematician and so-called “Enchantress of Numbers” is widely regarded as the world’s first computer programmer.

Lovelace’s publication “Sketch of the Analytical Engine, with Notes from the Translator” explored potential uses of Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine - a device which was never built, yet contained the essential elements of a modern computer in its design. Her article included a detailed method for calculating a sequence of Bernoulli numbers with the Engine, recognized as the first computer program ever published.

In 1852, approximately ten years after this significant publication, Lovelace passed away from uterine cancer at just 36 years old. While we may never know what discoveries she would have made had she lived longer, her work was ahead of its time and paved the way for modern computer science.