Ada Lovelace: Programming the Future

Long before the first computer existed, Ada Lovelace imagined what one could do. In this episode of Launching into History, we explore how the daughter of a poet and a mathematician became the world’s first programmer. Working alongside Charles Babbage, she saw the potential of machines beyond math—envisioning music, language, and logic in code. Discover the 19th-century mind that foresaw the digital age.