Who Am I?

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Answer: Ada Lovelace
  1. I was born in London in December 1815.
  2. My father was a famous poet; he separated from my mother a month after I was born.
  3. The mathematician Mary Somerville was my private tutor.
  4. I translated an Italian engineer's article (by Luigi Menabrea) about a never-built machine.
  5. My notes described how that machine could calculate Bernoulli numbers, often called the first published computer program.
  6. My collaborator was Charles Babbage, and a programming language is named after me.
Source: Wikipedia: Ada Lovelace