Alison Owen and Debra Hayward's upstart indie also is working with The Science & Entertainment Exchange to develop the film about the computer science visionary and daughter of Lord Byron. By Alex ...

On Monday, Google celebrates the 197th birthday of Ada Lovelace, a computer programmer whose accomplishments are celebrated every October on "Ada Lovelace Day." Lovelace, the daughter of Lord George ...

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 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 ...

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 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” ...

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 ...

This Thursday, Dec. 10, is the 200th birthday of Ada Lovelace, a pioneer in the discipline of computer science. Tutored from childhood in mathematics and logic, at 17 Lovelace was introduced to ...

Many people vaguely know Ada Lovelace as the inventor of the first computer. Is this claim true? To get straight to the point, it is not. To understand Lovelace's true contributions, we must first ...

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 ...

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