Cambridge University Press / Princeton University Press / Scientific American Inc. / Dr. Dobb’s Journal / STATUTORY CORPORATION / /
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United Kingdom / Italy / /
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SCIENCE MUSEUM LIBRARY / BACKGROUND COURTESY OF SCIENCE MUSEUM LIBRARY / Dominican College / University of London / University of California / Harvard University / Inc. PORTRAIT COURTESY OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM / mill Babbage / /
Cambridge University / Princeton University / University of London / Harvard University / University of California / Berkeley / British government / BRITISH POST OFFICE / POST OFFICE / Dominican College / /
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Howard Aiken / ADA LOVELACE / RICHARD TAYLOR / Arthur C. Clarke / Ada Byron / Augustus De Morgan / George Peacock / Anthony Hyman / Caroline Lamb / William King / Dorothy Stein / Augusta Ada King / Eugene Eric Kim / Mary Somerville / Charles Babbage / Betty Alexandra Toole / Luigi Federico Menabrea / Tom Stoppard / Alan M. Turing / Jakob Bernoulli / Annabella Milbanke / /
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technical editor / author of Ada / mathematician / author / future prime minister / professor / designer / Young Mathematician / mathematician and a scientist / prominent scientist / human head / first computer programmer / poet / mathematician and physicist / outspoken critic / consultant and an adjunct professor / adjunct professor of computer science / the author of Ada / designer of the world’s first computer / /
Ada and the First Computer The collaboration between Ada, countess of Lovelace, and computer pioneer Charles Babbage resulted in a landmark publication