October 13, 2015, by Lindsay Brooke

Celebrating the life of Ada Lovelace – the world’s first computer programmer

Sixty Symbols celebrates Ada Lovelace Day.

Michael Merrifield, Professor and Astronomy and Dr Meghan Gray an observational extragalactic astronomer in the School of Physics and Astronomy at The University of Nottingham discuss the genius of Ada Lovelace – the world’s first computer programmer. This video by Brady Haran’s Sixty Symbols (‘cool videos about Physics and Astronomy’ with experts from The University of Nottingham) is worth a watch.

 

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