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].
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(1999-07-17)
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