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Her name was Ada, and she was born to shine. Daughter of the famous poet Lord Byron and the mathematician Lady Byron, she inherited her parents’ passion for arts and sciences. She was curious, intelligent, creative, and dreamed of changing the world.
She grew up in a time when women were confined to the roles of mother, wife, or mistress. But she did not let herself be trapped in these cages. She studied mathematics, physics, chemistry, music, and languages. She befriended scholars, artists, writers, and reformers. She married a count, but kept her independence of mind and heart.
She met a man who would change her life: Charles Babbage. He was the father of computing, the inventor of a mechanical calculating machine called the analytical engine. He showed her his project, and she was fascinated. She understood the potential of this machine, capable of performing complex and varied operations. She decided to help him realize his dream.
She started working with him, translating and annotating an article on the analytical engine. She added her own ideas, her own visions. She imagined a language to program the machine, a way to make it execute instructions. She invented the first computer algorithm, a method to calculate the Bernoulli numbers. She became the first programmer in history.
She wrote: “The analytical engine has no pretensions to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform… But it is likely to exert an indirect and reciprocal influence on science itself.” She sensed that the machine could go beyond numbers, that it could manipulate symbols, images, sounds. She glimpsed that the machine could create art, music, poetry. She dreamed of a world where the machine and the human would collaborate to produce beauty and truth.
She wrote: “I believe myself to possess a most singular combination of qualities exactly fitted to make me pre-eminently a discoverer of the hidden realities of nature.” She paved the way for a new field of knowledge, that of computing. She inspired generations of researchers, innovators, visionaries. She was a pioneer, a genius, a legend.
Her name was Ada Lovelace, and she had changed the world.

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Her name was Ada, and she was born to shine. Daughter of the famous poet Lord Byron and the mathematician Lady Byron, she inherited her parents’ passion for arts and sciences. She was curious, intelligent, creative, and dreamed of changing the world.
She grew up in a time when women were confined to the roles of mother, wife, or mistress. But she did not let herself be trapped in these cages. She studied mathematics, physics, chemistry, music, and languages. She befriended scholars, artists, writers, and reformers. She married a count, but kept her independence of mind and heart.
She met a man who would change her life: Charles Babbage. He was the father of computing, the inventor of a mechanical calculating machine called the analytical engine. He showed her his project, and she was fascinated. She understood the potential of this machine, capable of performing complex and varied operations. She decided to help him realize his dream.
She started working with him, translating and annotating an article on the analytical engine. She added her own ideas, her own visions. She imagined a language to program the machine, a way to make it execute instructions. She invented the first computer algorithm, a method to calculate the Bernoulli numbers. She became the first programmer in history.
She wrote: “The analytical engine has no pretensions to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform… But it is likely to exert an indirect and reciprocal influence on science itself.” She sensed that the machine could go beyond numbers, that it could manipulate symbols, images, sounds. She glimpsed that the machine could create art, music, poetry. She dreamed of a world where the machine and the human would collaborate to produce beauty and truth.
She wrote: “I believe myself to possess a most singular combination of qualities exactly fitted to make me pre-eminently a discoverer of the hidden realities of nature.” She paved the way for a new field of knowledge, that of computing. She inspired generations of researchers, innovators, visionaries. She was a pioneer, a genius, a legend.
Her name was Ada Lovelace, and she had changed the world.