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 The life of Countess of Lovelace

By Jhon Edwin Rodriguez Ceron

Ada Augusta Lovelace was known as the first programmer of the world, she was a woman with a complicated life, whose love for science and engineering helped to develop the first machine that had applications beyond pure calculation. She was the only legitimate child from the marriage between the Lord Byron (Poet) and Lady Byron (Mathematician), she was born on 10 December 1815 in London, her parents that were expecting a boy, separated away just 4 months after Ada birth.

After this her mother takes the education of Ada very seriously, the idea of Lady Byron was taken away any characteristic of his father and made her child intelligent and wise, Ada studied literature, music, astronomy and mathematics. One of her tutors Mary Somerville introduce her to Charles Babbage known as the father of the computation, the creator of the differential machine, they kept a big correspondence with him about mathematics and computation.

In 1835, she got married to William King Count of Lovelace, they had three kids, and they had a happy married, she become the Countess of Lovelace, that helped her to get access to the elite of the knowledge in London, this is how she was select to translate an article from the military engineer Luigi Menabrea about the Analytical Engine. In this translation, she includes her own notes, where she describes and propose algorithms that are the base of the modern programming.

Ada died on 27 November 1852 at the age of 36, product of a uterine cancer, and as it was her desire, she was buried next to her at the Church of St. Mary Magdalene in Hucknall, Nottinghamshire. This is the story of the women that created the bases of every program that we are using until today.