Ada Lovelace (person) (1811-1852) The daughter of Lord Byron, who became the world's first programmer while cooperating with Charles Babbage on the design of his mechanical computing engines in the mid-1800s.
The language Ada was named after her. ["Ada, Enchantress of Numbers Prophit of the Computer Age", Betty Alexandra Toole]. [More details?] Last updated: 1999-07-17