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Lady Augusta Ada Byron was an English mathematician who collaborated with Babbage on applications for the analytic engine. She is considered the world’s first programmer, and the Ada programming language is named in her honour.
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It is likely that Lord Byron was the father of Elizabeth Medora Leigh as he is believed to have had an incestuous affair with his half-sister, Augusta Leigh. Annabella Milbanke told Lovelace that Leigh was her half-sister and fathered by Byron. He was also the father of Clara Allegra Byron, the illegitimate daughter of Claire Clairmont. She died of typhus aged five during Byron’s travels in Italy.
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However, clearly Babbage would have produced several plans for calculations before her.
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Menabrea LF (1842) Sketch of the analytical engine. Invented by Charles Babbage (trans: Lovelace LA). Bibliothèque Universelle de Genève
Menabrea LF (1842) Sketch of the analytic engine invented by Charles Babbage. Bibliothèque Universelle de Genève, no. 82 (trans: Ada, Augusta, Countess of Lovelace)
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O’Regan, G. (2013). Ada Lovelace. In: Giants of Computing. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5340-5_38
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