She was twenty-seven.Ībout a decade earlier, Lovelace had met the brilliant and eccentric British mathematician Charles Babbage who, when he wasn’t busy teaming up with Dickens to wage a war on street music, was working on strange inventions that would one day prompt posterity to call him the father of the computer.
Together, they measured 65 pages - two and half times the length of Menabrea’s original text - and included the earliest complete computer program, becoming the first true paper on computer science and rendering Lovelace the world’s first computer programmer. In 1843, Ada Lovelace (December 10, 1815–November 27, 1852) - the only legitimate child of the poet Lord Byron - translated a scientific paper by Italian military engineer Luigi Menabrea titled Sketch of an Analytical Engine, adding seven footnotes to it.
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