Ada Lovelace DressThis Women in STEM Tribute Dress features modified prints of Lovelace's diagram from Note G The First Published Computer Algorithm! Ada Lovelace, (1815 1852) was an English Mathematician and writer. She was best known for her work on the Analytical Engine, generally considered to be the first computer. She was the first to recognize that the mechanical general purpose computer had applications beyond pure calculation, and published the first algorithm