ADA
The legitimate daughter of Lord Byron
and his Priness of Parallelograms
explained how Babbage's Analytical Engine
produced logical number patterns
and published the first computer program,
when card-fed looms wove repeated designs.
Is there a calculus of the nervous system?
Cancer took her without an answer.
But a Pentagon researcher deciphered her question:
the 1990s built neural networks
that mapped the software to guide smartbombs;
programs based on her concepts
now defined in US Military Standard 1815 - ADA
