Ada Augusta was born in England, only legitimate daughter of English poet Lord Byron.

He followed studies particular of mathematics and sciences, being one of his tutors Augustus De Morgan, senior instructor of mathematics of the University of London. Self-taught person, from young person worked with Charles Babbage to whom considers itself him like the father of the computers, thanks to that its “Analytical Engine” works with he himself principle that the present computers.

It developed instructions to make calculations in an early version of the computer. Its relation with Charles Babbage began when it visited her factory early age. Babbage very was impressed with the way in which she understood her computer for which a “plan” wrote describing the steps that would allow to calculate the values of the numbers of Bernoulli. His they are, in addition, so familiar concepts in a programming language like an instruction set that allows that others repeat in a subroutine.

A series of influential notes on the computer of Babbage, its “Analytical Engine” published in 1843, that never got to be constructed (although it signed with his initials A.A.L by fear to be censured for being woman). Ada Byron was called to itself an analyst, a really modern concept for the time.

In its notes, Ada Augusta says that the “Analytical Engine” only could give information available that she was already well-known: it saw clearly that it could not originate knowledge. Its work was forgotten by many years, attributing to him exclusively a paper of transcript of notes of Babbage.

This same one characterized its contribution when calling it its interpreter although recent investigations show the originality of their point of view on the necessary instructions for the operation of the “Analytical Engine”. At this moment Byron like the first person in describing a programming language of general character recognizes itself Ada interpreting the ideas of Babbage, but recognizing to it him the total responsibility and originality of his contributions. Ada Byron is the mother of the computer science programming.

Being many the women who have made great contributions to computer science, only Ada Lovelace counts on a programming language that takes its name: in 1979 the Department of Defense of the United States created a programming language based on Pascal in honor of Ada Byron called ADA programming language

Its name as a married person passed to be since then lady Ada Augusta Byron King, countess of Lovelace, it names of which is born his modern denomination of (Lady) Ada Lovelace.