TG Daily has an amazing story on this unique and historic find for all your programming anthropologists! Original Ada Lovelace painting purchased on eBay via /.
Computer geeks on opposite ends of the Earth have found the original sketch of the world’s first programmer. In a story worthy of a Hollywood movie, a United States Army sergeant in Tajikistan and a programmer in Texas resurrected the legend of Ada Lovelace by buying up a 180-year-old watercolor portrait on eBay.
Ada Lovelace, formally known as Ada Byron, Countess of Lovelace is credited with creating the world’s first computer program for the Babbage steam-powered calculating engine. The United States military named their Ada programming language after her and her portrait is used in some Microsoft hologram stickers.
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Thats funny the lady has my last name — Lovelace —
ill have to dig back through the family tree to see if im related to her — i have no computer programming skills
Chad Lovelace
Listen to a wonderful discussion of Ada here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20080306.shtml
Enjoy,
Jon
Hmm, looks a little bit like Limor…