NINETEENTH century mathematician Ada Lovelace imagined the modern-day computer more than a century before it came into being. Though the computer she wrote about was never created, her extensive no… ...

When Ada Lovelace was twelve years old, she wanted to fly. She approached the problem methodically, examining birds and investigating various materials that could serve as wings—feathers, paper ...

Ada’s greatest invention was, in fact, a work of speculation. Without a computer to run her program, she and her contemporaries would never know how prescient she had been.

The famous logician Augustus De Morgan with whom Ada took classes, had a decisive influence on Ada Lovelace's later main work, the "Notes". She also met the mathematician Charles Babbage, an inventor ...

Acclaimed as a mathematical genius, Ada Lovelace is said to have understood the potential of the first computer blueprints better than their inventor. A serendipitous friendship with the ...

Every 50 years or so, a new invention makes some practices and tools obsolete. Ada Lovelace, the first computer programmer, wrote the earliest recorded program to compute a series of numbers. She ...

Ada Lovelace has been called the world’s first “computer programmer.” In the 1840s, she wrote the world’s first machine algorithm for an early computing machine that existed only on paper ...

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 ...

Yet Ada Lovelace (pictured, left), as she is usually known today, was one of the chief influences in the development of Charles Babbage's famous Analytical Engine. Today her work is fêted as an ...

October 10 is Ada Lovelace Day, the annual celebration of the mathematician. It takes place on the second Tuesday of October and aims to encourage and recognise female contributions to STEM ...