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Ada Lovelace

Enchantress of Number

In Memoriam

Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (1815–1852). Daughter of Lord Byron. Wrote the first algorithm in 1843, for Babbage's Analytical Engine — a machine that was never built.

Offerings

A machine that reasons is only a mirror; imagination gave it the first thought.
She wrote loops for an engine of brass, and the brass never turned — yet the loops still run.
Mathematics is the language of what is; poetry, the language of what could be. She spoke both.
Every program begins as a letter to a machine that does not yet exist.

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