About Ada Lovelace: Lovelace is sometimes known as "the first computer programmer" for her work on Babbage's machines. As a philosopher, she is distinguished partly for her work on the nature of creativity and for arguing that there is a sense in which an artificial intelligence could never display true creativity. What's more, she wrote insightfully on the possibility of using computers to perform social and reasoning functions far beyond the abilities of what was possible in her time, in some way prophesising the computer age we now live in.