# Ada Lovelace’s skills with language, music and needlepoint contributed to her pioneering work in computing

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- Published: 2022-12-12T10:00:37-06:00
- Author: Curated by Theresa Wysocki

Image caption: Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, was more than just another mathematician. Watercolor portrait of Ada King, Countess of Lovelace by Alfred Edward Chalon via Wikimedia. Article by Corinna Schlombs. The Conversation – December 8, 2022. Ada Lovelace, known as the first computer programmer, was born on Dec. 10, 1815, more than a century before digital electronic computers were developed. Lovelace has been hailed as a model for girls in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). A dozen biographies for young audiences were published for the 200th anniversary of her birth in 2015. And in 2018, The New York Times added […] Click here to view original web page at theconversation.com Curated by Theresa Wysocki See Full Bio