![]() ![]() The “Ada” to whom Lord Byron was referring was, in fact, “the only daughter of his house,” who would end up being the only legitimate descendant of a man who was known not only for his literary talent, but also for his turbulent love life. So begins the Third Canto of Childe Harold‘s Pilgrimage, the work that launched to fame George Gordon Byron, better known by the aristocratic title he inherited from his great-uncle. “Is thy face like thy mother’s, my fair child! ADA! sole daughter of my house and heart? When last I saw thy young blue eyes, they smiled, and then we parted, –not as now we part, but with a hope. However, new data confirms what many experts already believed, that despite the undeniable value of her contributions, the widespread idea that she wrote the first computer program in history is only a myth. ![]() Ada Lovelace, the only legitimate child of the poet Lord Byron, was a brilliant enthusiast of mathematics who anticipated the enormous potential of computers at a time when the first mechanical calculators had only just been created. ![]()
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