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Ada Lovelace: 'Enchantress of Numbers'

OK so I was never good at math, but I was excited to discover that the inventor of the world's first computer program was a woman!

In 1843 Ada Lovelace anticipated the development of computer software, artificial intelligence and computer music. She wrote the first recorded 'program'. All this at a time before computers as we know them existed.

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Katherine Dodds AKA "Kat" is the founder of Good Company Communications and HelloCoolWorld.com. Trained in renegade advertising & branding through her work with Adbusters in the '90s, Kat's early induction into the possibilities of the web-world was inspired by the term hypertext, which she immediately found comforting. She is dedicated to cause-related communication and to the development and use of tools that promote democratic processes.