👩‍💻 It's Ada Lovelace Day - a time to celebrate the incredible work of the ICR's #WomenInSTEM! Ada Lovelace is considered to be the world’s first computer programmer. Nearly 200 years ago she wrote her first computer programme and made her mark on computing history. Dr Claire Lynn, a bioinformatician in the Evolutionary Genomics and Modelling Team, shares more about her bioinformatics job at the ICR, how Ada inspires her and also gives advice to young women interested in this field. #AdaLovela

Ada Lovelace, born in 1815, is celebrated as the first computer programmer in history. She is best known for her groundbreaking work on Charles Babbage’s analytical engine, a conceptual predecessor to modern computers. In the 19th century, Babbage imagined a machine capable of performing comple calculations and analyses based on input data, effectively setting the stage for contemporary computing. Lovelace’s deep understanding of the analytical engine allowed her to develop the first algorithm f