The World’s First Computer Programmer Was a Victorian Mother-of-Three

The World's First Computer Programmer Was a Victorian Mother-of-Three Oct 15th 2013, 11:00, by Gerald Lynch Does the name Ada Lovelace ring any bells? No? Seeing as you’re reading this on a computer, tablet or smartphone, it should. The Victorian mother-of-three, born 1815, was the world’s first ever computer programmer. A close friend of Charles Babbage, inventor of the Difference Engine (considered the first ever computer), Lovelace was tasked with translating [...]