ADA LOVELACE'S 180-YEAR-OLD NOTES PREVIEWED THE FUTURE OF COMPUTERS

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Ada Lovelace's annotations to a paper about the analytical engine, the world's first general-purpose computer, are considered foundational to computer science. In her notes, Lovelace demonstrated a deep understanding of the engine's capabilities and envisioned the machine manipulating symbols according to rules to create music and other forms of media. Despite her insights, the analytical engine was never built due to a lack of funding.