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. By Emilie Le Beau ...

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 ...

Mathematician Anna Siffert from the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics on why Ada Lovelace is considered the world's first computer programmer. Computer Science Mathematics. Augusta Ada Byron is ...

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 ...

Ada Lovelace, born Augusta Ada Byron on December 10, 1815, was the daughter of renowned poet Lord Byron and Annabella Milbanke. Despite her father’s fame and turbulent personal life, Ada’s ...

Ada Lovelace, Poet of Science: The First Computer Programmer Diane Stanley, illus. by Jessie Hartland. S&S/Wiseman, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4814-5249-6 ...

Both are based on binary systems, and the Dutch artist Anna Lucia Goense is mining that fact for inspiration. Needlework and computer coding might seem to be incongruous pursuits, but for the Dutch ...

Learning to code was supposedly the salvation of millions of liberal art majors. But now programming jobs are plummeting. The Post’s Department of Data tries to figure out what’s going on.