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Ada Lovelace was the daughter of the poet, Lord Byron. Ada Lovelace created the concept of a computer operating system and software.

About Ada Lovelace - Profile

A biographical sketch, with a brief bibliography, of Ada Lovelace. Gives the basic facts about Ada Lovelace, computer pioneer.

About Ada Lovelace - Biography

A longer biography of Ada Lovelace. Ada Lovelace was a mathematician who studied with computer pioneer Charles Babbage and made her own contribution to the new field.

Ada Lovelace: Founder of Scientific Computing

A biography of Ada Lovelace, with an illustration.

Ada Lovelace: Notes by the Translator

Ada Lovelace on Babbage's Analytical Engine, or computer. Originally published in 1843 in French, this is the paper by Ada Lovelace that prefigures computer software.

Repurposing Ada

Salon feature article questions the story that Lady Ada Lovelace, daughter of poet Byron, was the first computer programmer.

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