Augusta Ada King , Countess of Lovelace was an English mathematician and writer, chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's proposed mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical

Engine.She was the first to recognise

that the machine had applications

beyond pure calculation and she

published the first algorithm intended

to be carried out by such a machine.

As a result she is sometimes regarded

as the first to recognise the full potenial

of a computing machine and one of the

first computer program.