In 1847, at the age of just twenty-seven, Ada Lovelace became the world’s first computer programmer—more than a century before the first computer was even built. This almost sounds like a myth, or the ...

Behind every great man, there’s a great woman; no other adage more aptly describes the relationship between Charles Babbage, the man credited with thinking up the concept of the programmable computer, ...

UNSPECIFIED - CIRCA 1754: Augusta Ada, Countess Lovelace (1815-1852) English mathematician and writer. Daughter of the poet Byron. Friend of Charles Babbage. Devised programme for his Analytical ...

Ada Lovelace, daughter of poet Lord Byron and mathematician Annabella Milbanke, became the world's first programmer in 1843 with her algorithm for Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine. Learning to ...

A century before the first computer was developed, an Englishwoman named Ada Lovelace laid the theoretical groundwork for an all-purpose device that could solve a host of mathematically-based problems ...

This article originally appeared in The Last Word on Nothing. Tagline: “Science says the first word on everything, and the last word on nothing”—Victor Hugo. I’m not, in general, huge on holidays. I ...

Portrait of Ada Lovelace at age 20 (from The New York Public Library) Ada Lovelace was born 200 years ago this month. To some she is a great hero in the history of computing; to others an ...