<P> In 1842 , the Italian mathematician Luigi Federico Menabrea published a description of the engine based on a lecture by Babbage in French . In 1843 , the description was translated into English and extensively annotated by Ada Lovelace , who had become interested in the engine eight years earlier . In recognition of her additions to Menabrea 's paper , which included a way to calculate Bernoulli numbers using the machine , she has been described as the first computer programmer . </P>
<P> In 1842 , the Italian mathematician Luigi Federico Menabrea published a description of the engine based on a lecture by Babbage in French . In 1843 , the description was translated into English and extensively annotated by Ada Lovelace , who had become interested in the engine eight years earlier . In recognition of her additions to Menabrea 's paper , which included a way to calculate Bernoulli numbers using the machine , she has been described as the first computer programmer . </P>
who wrote a program for the analytical engine to calculate a series of bernoulli numbers
who wrote a program for the analytical engine to calculate a series of bernoulli numbers
Ada Lovelace
Ada Lovelace