kaleidoscope
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12-10-12 05:36 PM - Post#4030952
Check this out. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace
Google has a doodle for her birthday.
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.[4]
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