Ada Lovelace

The mathematician who saw in Babbage's engine the first computer program — and the first computing vision.

Core Principles & Analysis

• Her notes on the Analytical Engine include a table of operations for Bernoulli numbers.
• She foresaw the engine manipulating symbols of any kind, not merely numbers — music, for instance.
• Daughter of Lord Byron, she worked with Charles Babbage in the 1840s.

Specifications & Metrics

• ERA: 1815 – 1852