Ada Lovelace (Mrs. Ada King) is honored by Google as a doodle on her 197th birthday. (Google)
11:32 am ET -Ada Lovelace was the visionary half of the team that helped create the modern computer. Lovelace is honored by Google as the 'first computer programmer.'
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