Ada Lovelace imagined computers beyond math
In the 1840s, Ada Lovelace, the world's first computer programmer, foresaw computers composing music and generating graphics, far beyond simple arithmetic.
Long before modern computers, Ada Lovelace, a brilliant 19th-century mathematician, envisioned machines doing more than just calculations. Collaborating with Charles Babbage on his Analytical Engine, she wrote what's considered the first computer algorithm in 1843.
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