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December 6, 2013
Strange But True!
Q. Who was “Ms. Software,” credited with writing the first computer program, and who was the “Mr. Hardware” in her life?
A. She was Ada Byron, daughter of the famous poet George Gordon, Lord Byron, and later by marriage the Countess of Lovelace, says Randy Alfred, author and editor of the book “Mad Science.” Though Ada never knew her “poetically wild father,” this didn't stop her from becoming “an opium addict who had numerous affairs and gambled away much of the family fortune, dying at age 36.”
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