Ada Lovelace | Biography, Computer, & Facts
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Ada Lovelace, English mathematician, an associate of Charles Babbage, for whose digital computer prototype, the Analytical Engine, she created a program in 1843. She has been called the first computer programmer. Ada Lovelace Day, the second Tuesday in October, honors women’s contributions to science and technology.
  • Revan343@lemmy.caEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Forget that, most of the first computers were women.

    Google it. A ‘computer’ was a person employed to perform computations, and was a profession which generally employed women

    • mim@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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      1 year ago

      And this is the reason people in IT often refer to computers as “machines”, because at some point they started to replace the people doing the computations, and they needed to differentiate.

      (At least that’s the story I’ve heard)

        • 4z01235@lemmy.caEnglish
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          1 year ago

          Virtualization came a fair bit later, but this might explain why they are called Virtual Machines and not Virtual Computers?