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Ada Lovelace and Why Well-Behaved Women Never Make It In My Circle

by Jose 03.26.2009

In the early 1800s, a woman by the name of Augusta Ada King, countess of Lovelace (commonly known as Ada Lovelace), wrote a “program” for Charles Babbage that would work for a “computer” that he hadn’t even created yet. She’s widely credited as the first computer programmer, and even had the first major computer named [...]

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