The invention of software (aka computer programs) was just one part of the invention of the stored program computer in the 1940s. Without it a stored program computer is no more than a very complex and expensive electrical heater!
a program that is stored in the memory of the computer that executes it
he did not Charles Babbage invented the computer, an wang just invented a computer program
The concept of stored program was presented by Dr.John Von Neumann.
John Von Neumann.
By stored-program computer, we mean a machine in which the program, as well as the data, are stored in memory, each word of which can be accessed in uniform time. Most of the high-level language programming the reader.
PROGRAM
she invented a program in the computer
Ada Lovelace.
CPU
A computer program that is designed to replicate itself by copying itself into the other programs stored in a computer.
The term persistence in Computer Science, refers to the stored information (known as state), which outlives the executed computer program (or process). Persistence is important, without it all computer stored information would be lost whenever a computer is shut down.