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Agusta Ada Byron was born on October 10, 1815. She was the only daughter of Lord Byron and Anne Isabella Byron.
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Ada's father, the romantic poet Lord Byron, died of illness while fighting in the Greek Wars of Independence.
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Ada battles with illnesses during her childhood, and is bedridden for almost a year.
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At age 18, Ada Lovelace met Charles Babbage at a dinner party. The two worked together for many years, and accomplished many things in the field of technology.
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Ada Lovelace married William King, an english aristocrat 10 years her senior.
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Ada bears a son named Byron King-Noel.
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Ada bears a second child, Anne Isabella.
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Ada bears her third child, Ralph Gordon.
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Luigi Menabrea publishes his paper on Babbage's lecture on the Analytical Engine. Lovelace translates and expands the article, adding notes about the engine that are triple the length of the original paper.
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In 1843, Ada completed her notes on the Menabrea paper, and in doing so created the first computer program. This program described the algorithim for the Analytical Engine to compute Bernoulli numbers, and as such she is seen as the first computer programmer.
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Ada Lovelace had a serious gambling problem, and attemped to create a model for placing bets. However, it did not work and she went into debt over it.
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Ada dies at the age of 36 of uterine cancer. She is laid to rest next to her father, at the Church of St. Mary Magdalene in Hucknall, Nottingham.
