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'''Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace''' (10 December 1815 – 27 November 1852), born '''Augusta Ada Byron''' and now commonly known as '''Ada Lovelace''', was an English mathematician and writer chiefly known for her work on [[Charles Babbage]]'s early mechanical general-purpose computer, the [[Analytical Engine]]. Her notes on the engine include what is recognised as the first [[algorithm]] intended to be processed by a machine. Because of this, she is often considered the world's first computer [[programmer]].<ref name="Annals of the History of Computing">J. Fuegi and J. Francis, "Lovelace & Babbage and the creation of the 1843 'notes'". ''[[IEEE Annals of the History of Computing]]'' 25 No. 4 (October–December 2003): 16–26. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MAHC.2003.1253887 Digital Object Identifier]</ref><ref>{{cite web | url = http://cs-www.cs.yale.edu/homes/tap/Files/ada-bio.html |title=Ada Byron, Lady Lovelace| accessdate =11 July 2010| archiveurl= http://web.archive.org/web/20100721013509/http://cs-www.cs.yale.edu/homes/tap/Files/ada-bio.html| archivedate= 21 July 2010 <!--DASHBot-->| deadurl= no}}</ref><ref name="Lovelace Google
Ada was the only legitimate child of the poet [[Lord Byron]] (with [[Anne Isabella Byron, Baroness Byron|Anne Isabella Byron]]). She had no relationship with her father, who separated from her mother just a month after Ada was born, and four months later he left England forever and died in Greece in 1823 when she was eight. As a young adult, she took an interest in mathematics, and in particular Babbage's work on the analytical engine. Between 1842 and 1843, she translated an article by Italian mathematician [[Luigi Menabrea]] on the engine, which she supplemented with a [[Ada Byron's notes on the analytical engine|set of notes]] of her own. These notes contain what is considered the first computer program — that is, an algorithm encoded for processing by a machine. Ada's notes are important in the early [[history of computers]]. She also foresaw the capability of computers to go beyond mere calculating or number-crunching while others, including Babbage himself, focused only on these capabilities.<ref>Fuegi and Francis 2003 pp. 19, 25.</ref>
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In the UK, the [[BCSWomen]] Lovelace Colloquium, the annual conference for women undergraduates is named after Ada Lovelace.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.bath.ac.uk/comp-sci/news/news_0004.html|title=Bath to host 2012 BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium}}{{dead link|date=November 2012}}</ref>
On the 197th anniversary of her death, [[Google]] dedicated their [[Google Doodle]] to her.<ref name="Lovelace Google"/> The doodle shows Lovelace working on a formula along with images that show the evolution of the computer.<ref name="Lovelace Google"/>
==Titles and styles by which she was known==
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