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 ...

AN ultra-rare book by the Victorian woman described as the “world's first computer programmer” is set to sell for £5,000 at auction. Ada Lovelace, the only legitimate child of Lord Byron, was a maths ...

Plans have been drawn up to celebrate gifted 19th Century mathematician Ada Lovelace in the town near to where she lived as a child. Lovelace, the daughter of romantic poet Lord Byron, has been widely ...

You may not immediately associate computer science or engineering with women. But as far back as 1815, women were pioneers of technology. The world’s first computer programmer, by many accounts, was ...