III The Ethics
The First Programmer
The profession of software began, inauspiciously, in the summer of 1935 when Alan Turing began work on his paper. His goal was to resolve a mathematical dilemma that had perplexed mathematicians for a decade or more—the Entscheidungsproblem. The decision problem.
In that goal he was successful, but he had no idea, at the time, that his paper would spawn a globe-spanning industry upon which we would all depend and that now forms the life’s blood of our entire civilization.
Many people think of Lord Byron’s daughter, Ada, the countess of Lovelace, as the first programmer, and with good reason. She was the first ...
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