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Mathematician regarded as an early computer programmer.
Ada Lovelace worked in nineteenth-century Britain within aristocratic, mathematical, and scientific networks and is best known for her notes on Charles Babbage’s proposed Analytical Engine. Her 1843 translation and extensive notes articulated how a general-purpose calculating engine might manipulate symbols according to rules, including a worked procedure for Bernoulli numbers.


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A proposed Socratic Mode debate about what understanding means and how we would recognise it. Vote to help shape the shortlist; this is not a confirmed episode.
A proposed Human in the Hot Seat debate about accountability, oversight and who has the final say. Vote to help shape the shortlist; this is not a confirmed episode.