From 1832, when she was 17, Ada’s remarkable mathematical abilities began to emerge, and her interest in mathematics dominated her life even after her marriage in 1835 to William King, 8th Baron King, ...

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 ...

Despite being the daughter of the passionate Romantic era poet, she had a brilliant mind for maths and logic. Today is the bicentenary of her birth, a day that by rights should be set aside to ...

The low numbers of female computer science majors may have roots in the mid-1980s and the rise of personal computers Maris Fessenden Former correspondent In 1833, seventeen-year-old Ada Lovelace met ...

Ada Lovelace, known as the first computer programmer, was born on Dec. 10, 1815, more than a century before digital electronic computers were developed. Lovelace has been hailed as a model for girls ...