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The first woman programmer, Ada Lovelace

Ada Lovelace, an Indirect and Reciprocal Influence When I heard that Ada Lovelace Day was coming, I questioned myself, “What do I actually know about Ada Lovelace?” The sum total of my knowledge: Ada was the first woman programmer and the Department of Defense honored her contributions to computation in 1979 by naming its common programming language Ada. A few… Read more →