Ada Lovelace, the first computer programmer, was born on December 10, 1815, more than a century before digital electronic computers were developed. But Lovelace — properly Ada King, Countess of ...

What happens when your mother was called ‘the princess of parallelograms’ and your father one of the best poets history has ...

A rare 175 year-old book containing the world's first computer algorithm by Ada Lovelace – mathematician and daughter of Lord Byron – has been sold at auction in England for £95,000 (US$125,000).

A manuscript written by Ada Lovelace, who's considered by many to be the first computer programmer, was just sold at auction for more than $125,000, the Guardian reports. A first edition and just ...

Whereas Babbage is credited with the machine’s conception, it was perhaps his friend Ada Lovelace who best understood its promise and the potential that computers would one day fulfill.

One hundred and fifty years before the computer became a household item, English mathematician Ada Lovelace wrote the first computer algorithm. The Guardian reports that a first-edition manuscript ...

The second Tuesday in October is Ada Lovelace Day, a day to celebrate and encourage the accomplishments of women in science, technology, and engineering. But who was Ada Lovelace?

Lovelace was born Ada Gordon in 1815, daughter of the poet Lord Byron and his mathematics-loving wife Annabella Milbanke. As a child she was fascinated by machines, and designed everything from ...

Today is Ada Lovelace Day, when people around the web will write about their favorite women in science and technology. But who was Ada Lovelace? Ada was born Augusta Ada Byron on December 10, 1815 ...

Though Ada Lovelace was excluded from higher education, she is the world's first computer programmer — and her mathematical contributions form the foundations of computer science.