Genius, playboy, daredevil. Google celebrates the innovator's 197th birthday with a lovely doodle.
It's rumored her hatred for poets and love of abacuses started young.
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And then those abacuses turned her into the world's first computer programmer.
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After she met Charles Babbage.
The English mathematician and writer created the first algorithm for Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine.
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Also her floral headresses brought all the academics to the yard.
In early 1833 Ada had an affair with a tutor, which was the first the the many sexually liberated scandals that followed her through the years.
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