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ADA LOVELACE, The First Computer Programmer Before Computers Existed
Before Silicon Valley.
Before computers.
Before anyone imagined software.
A 19th-century mathematician wrote the first computer program in history.
Her name was Ada Lovelace.
In this episode of Badass Women Throughout History, Amy explores the remarkable story of the woman who saw the future of computing a century before it existed.
Born in 1815 as the daughter of the infamous poet Lord Byron, Ada Lovelace was raised to think with logic instead of poetry. Her mother pushed her toward mathematics, hoping to keep her from inheriting Byron’s “dangerous imagination.”
But Ada ended up with something far more powerful:
A mind that could see machines as more than machines.
When Ada encountered Charles Babbage’s revolutionary idea for the Analytical Engine, she realized something no one else had yet understood:
A machine could follow instructions.
A machine could manipulate symbols.
A machine could process information(!)
In 1843, Ada published notes on the Analytical Engine that were three times longer than the original paper—and within those notes she described what is widely considered the first computer program ever written.
Even more astonishing:
Ada predicted that computers could someday compose music, create art, and manipulate symbols beyond numbers.
In other words, she imagined modern computing and artificial intelligence—100 years early.
Ada Lovelace didn’t just understand machines.
She understood the future … and she wrote it down.
This is her story!
Sources
BBC documentary Ada Lovelace: The Enchantress of Numbers
Hosted by Dr Hannah Fry
Social Media
https://linktr.ee/BAWTH
Instagram: @BadAssWomenThroughoutHistory
TikTok: @BAWTHpodcast
Facebook: @BAWTH
Youtube: @BadAssWomenThroughoutHistory
Website: https://badasswomenthroughouthistory.com
Substack: https://badasswomenthroughouthistory.substack.com/
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By Amy AitkenBefore Silicon Valley.
Before computers.
Before anyone imagined software.
A 19th-century mathematician wrote the first computer program in history.
Her name was Ada Lovelace.
In this episode of Badass Women Throughout History, Amy explores the remarkable story of the woman who saw the future of computing a century before it existed.
Born in 1815 as the daughter of the infamous poet Lord Byron, Ada Lovelace was raised to think with logic instead of poetry. Her mother pushed her toward mathematics, hoping to keep her from inheriting Byron’s “dangerous imagination.”
But Ada ended up with something far more powerful:
A mind that could see machines as more than machines.
When Ada encountered Charles Babbage’s revolutionary idea for the Analytical Engine, she realized something no one else had yet understood:
A machine could follow instructions.
A machine could manipulate symbols.
A machine could process information(!)
In 1843, Ada published notes on the Analytical Engine that were three times longer than the original paper—and within those notes she described what is widely considered the first computer program ever written.
Even more astonishing:
Ada predicted that computers could someday compose music, create art, and manipulate symbols beyond numbers.
In other words, she imagined modern computing and artificial intelligence—100 years early.
Ada Lovelace didn’t just understand machines.
She understood the future … and she wrote it down.
This is her story!
Sources
BBC documentary Ada Lovelace: The Enchantress of Numbers
Hosted by Dr Hannah Fry
Social Media
https://linktr.ee/BAWTH
Instagram: @BadAssWomenThroughoutHistory
TikTok: @BAWTHpodcast
Facebook: @BAWTH
Youtube: @BadAssWomenThroughoutHistory
Website: https://badasswomenthroughouthistory.com
Substack: https://badasswomenthroughouthistory.substack.com/