This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Someone encountering an “Analytical Engine” ...

Ada Lovelace, arguably the first computer programmer, was born 200 years ago today. She worked with Charles Babbage on one of the earliest computers in 1843. A portrait of Ada Lovelace by Margaret ...

Ada Lovelace Day, founded in 2009, is a time to celebrate the work of women in science, technology, engineering and math fields. She is considered influential enough that she was the subject of one of ...

My favourite Financial Times journalists are Lucy Kellaway and Gillian Tett. And I can’t help wondering if it is coincidental that both are women… Maybe, but maybe not. Neither of their approaches are ...

Without Ada Lovelace’s skills with language, music, and needlepoint, she may never have completed her pioneering work in computing. Reading time 4 minutes Ada Lovelace, known as the first computer ...

Tuesday marks Ada Lovelace Day, designated to celebrate the woman who is widely regarded as the world's first computer programmer and original BAMF for her work in the early 1800s. Born in 1815, ...

Today's Google logo celebrates mathematician Ada Lovelace, widely credited as the world’s first computer programmer. Her work on Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine is the first example of an ...

The first programmable computer—if it were built—would have been a gigantic, mechanical thing clunking along with gears and levers and punch cards. That was the vision for Analytical Engine devised by ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Many of the first computer programmers were women. In fact, the very first computer programmer in the world was Ada Lovelace, the daughter of famous poet Lord Byron.