A century before the dawn of the computer age, Ada Lovelace imagined the modern-day, general-purpose computer. It could be programmed to follow instructions, she wrote in 1843. It could not just ...

Ada Lovelace, who has been called the world’s first computer programmer and the “enchantress of numbers,” was honored by Google on Monday with a Google Doodle marking her 197th birthday. If you’ve ...

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The only known photographs of Ada Lovelace are being added to Britain's National Portrait Gallery after decades hidden from ...

Augusta Ada Byron, Countess of Lovelace, known as Lady Ada Lovelace, was a groundbreaking visionary in the fields of mathematics and the earliest forms of computer science. Her achievements affect all ...

A statue of pioneering 19th Century mathematician Ada Lovelace has been officially unveiled in the town near her childhood ...

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 ...

This article is perfectly appropriate for Engineers Week this week. I focus here especially on women in engineering. Myra Sadker once said, “If the cure for cancer is in the mind of a girl, we may ...

Whether it’s an app, a software feature, or an interface element, programmers possess the magical ability to create something new out of virtually nothing. Just give them the hardware and a coding ...

Not many people know that Ada Byron, Countess of Lovelace (1815-1852), otherwise known as “The Enchantress of Numbers”, was the daughter of the poet Lord Byron. Ada’s parents separated when she was ...

Oct. 16 is the fourth "Ada Lovelace Day," on which women in science, tech, engineering and mathematics are celebrated for their work, whether contemporary or historical. Ada Lovelace was a ...