Ada Lovelace

Accomplishments

• The first computer programmer-moreover the first female
• An accomplished mathematician, violinist, and linguist

Inventions

• First to invent computer progr
• Designed a program for Charles Babbage's (never constructed) Analytical Engine
• Her design specified the data to be punched, the cards to be used, and the order in which instructions were to be executed

Contributions

• Ada Lovelace Day was started in 2009 to commemorate the accomplishments of women in science
• A high level programming language, developed by the US Department of Defense in the 1970s and called ADA was named after Ada Lovelace