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'''Augusta Ada Byron''' (1815-1852) studied [[Charles Babbage]] plans for the [[Analytic Engine]] and with Babbage and others wrote out some computational algorithms intended to run on it.
'''Augusta Ada Byron''' (1815-1852) is best known for having studied [[Charles Babbage]]'s plans for the [[Analytic Engine]] and with Babbage and others wrote out some computational algorithms intended to run on it.
Although modern feminists have presented her as "the first computer programmer"<ref name="sciam">[http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/Ada_and_the_First_Computer.pdf Scientific American, May 1999, pp76]</ref>, there are diverse opinions on this. For one thing, the computer Babbage conceived had never been built.
Although modern feminists have presented her as "the first computer programmer"<ref name="sciam">[http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/Ada_and_the_First_Computer.pdf Scientific American, May 1999, pp76]</ref>, there are diverse opinions on this. For one thing, the computer Babbage conceived had never been built.