Ada Lovelace: Enchantress of Numbers gets honored with Google doodle
Ada Lovelace: 'The Enchantress of Numbers' (via The Christian Science Monitor)
Ada Lovelace is honored today by Google for her contribution to computer science. She is variously described as the “first computer programmer” and the inventor of the algorithm. But Ada Lovelace might have become an historical footnote – the only legitimate daughter of Romantic poet Lord Byron –…
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