Charles Babbage Article

What is Charles Babbage remembered for?

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Charles Babbage is remembered for having conceived of the first automatic digital computer. Babbage is also known for his association with mathematician Ada Lovelace, who translated a French paper about Babbage’s Analytical Engine and, in her own annotations, published how it could perform a sequence of calculations, thereby creating the first computer program.