Shirley, Steve - In: Management Decision 19 (1981) 7, pp. 32-34
The legitimate daugher of the poet Byron, Ada Countess of Lovelace, was the world's first programmer. In 1842 she wrote her now classic comment: “The Analytical Engine has no pretentions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform”. Lady Lovelace...