STEM SUPERSTAR WOMEN ADA LOVELACE Pioneering Computer Programming Kelly Doudna Checkerboard Library An Imprint of Abdo Publishing abdopublishing com
4 1 ADA LOVELACE Ada Lovelace was a scientist in the early 1800s She was one of the first female scientists At that time women were not encouraged to learn science However some women like Ada Lovelace did anyway Lovelace was the daughter of the poet Lord Byron and part of the English upper class She had social and educational opportunities that most girls during her time did not Her mother Annabella Byron was well educated and wanted the same for her daughter Lord Byron was known to have an unstable personality Lady Byron was afraid Ada might have inherited her Understand well as I may my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand Ada Lovelace
5 Ada Lovelace was the first person to suggest using computers for tasks other than mathematics father's emotional problems She believed education was the way to keep Ada's mind strong and her emotions calm Lovelace was unusual in both the amount and type of her education She also had a professional career when most women didn't Lovelace had long term associations with another female scientist Mary Somerville and the mathematician and inventor Charles Babbage It was through her work with Babbage that Lovelace would become known as the first computer programmer
