📅 10 December 1815
Augusta Ada Byron, later Countess of Lovelace, was born in London and became an important interpreter of Charles Babbage's proposed Analytical Engine.
📅 10 December 1815
Her notes argued that a general machine could manipulate symbols according to rules, extending the idea of computation beyond numerical tables.
📅 10 December 1815
Lovelace's published table is frequently described as the first detailed computer program intended for implementation by a machine.
📅 10 December 1815
Private tutoring and elite networks opened doors generally closed to women, while later histories still debated the scale of her independent contribution.
📅 13 August 1843
Her translation of Menabrea's account appeared with notes much longer than the original and explained the unrealized machine's operations.
📅 13 August 1843
The table specifies operations, variables and repetitions in a form recognizable as an algorithm.
📅 13 August 1843
She argued that the Engine could follow operations supplied to it but could not originate ideas on its own.
📅 13 August 1843
Lovelace compared punched-card control with the Jacquard loom, linking patterns in textiles with patterns in symbolic computation.
