Internet search giant Google is tipping its hat to the world’s first computer programmer Ada Lovelace on the 197th anniversary of her birth with a Google Doodle on its homepage. The Google Doodle – a ...

Ada Lovelace Day today is calling on everyone to tout the achievements of women in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM). We also take a closer look at the woman for whom the day is named.

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...