Ada Lovelace, the mother of the modern computer

she was born December 10, 1815 into a very wealthy family, after it was discovered that she had a talent for numbers and science she was put into the care of tutors who helped her develop these skills. at the age of 17 she was able to meet Charles Babbage a well known mathematician who was working on the worlds first calculator. she was astonished by the machine, but that didn't stop her from suggesting changes that could be made in order to give the computer more functionality. she developed the first algorithm, and became the worlds first computer programmer.