Happy Ada Lovelace Day!
Augusta Ada King (nee Byron), Countess of Lovelace as born December 10, 1819. She was the only legitimate child of George Gordon Byron, the 6th Baron Byron. She married William King, the 8th Baron King and the 1st earl of Lovelace in 1838. (Which made her the Right Honorable Countess of Lovelace.) She died in 1852 at the age of 36 of uterine cancer.
Now, why is all of this important?
Its important because those who know who she is (and I didn't until about a month ago) she is known as the "first programmer" as she wrote programs for the analytical machine that Charles Babbage had not yet built.
How awesome is that?
