Lady Ada Lovelace

Lady Ada Lovelace, full name being Augusta Ada Lovelace was born on Decemeber 10, 1815 in London. Lovelace is known as the first computer programmer. At age 17, Ada met the British inventor and mathematician Charles Babbage who she became friends with and was also mentored by, she also wrote a computer program for him. While studying Ada was later asked to translate an article about Babbage's analytical engine for a Swiss journal. Not only did Ada translate the article but also added her own thoughts and ideas about the machine which led to the article being three times longer than the original. She played a pivotal role in tech history and her work led to future programmers such as Grace Hopper and Alan Turing make huge discoveries in computing which has had a substantial impact on the world. She also contributed to other programmers during her age like giving her thoughts and ideas to the Difference Machine. She paved the path for women to work in tech. Her life was cut short when she died aged 36 (Novemeber 27, 1852) from cancer but her legacy lives on, in fact, her contributions to the field of computer science were not discovered until the 1950s.