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Ada Lovelace

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

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.

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