Like with most things scientific, when one gets down to the fine details, it's hard to make any solid conclusion of who was "first." It's most likely that Love

Like with most things scientific, when one gets down to the fine details, it's hard to make any solid conclusion of who was "first." It's most likely that Lovelace and Babbage had already had conversations about computing before the machine was fully concieved, and so while their individual insights may have been different, they ultimately come from a collaborative perspective.