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 ...

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” ...

Without Ada Lovelace’s skills with language, music, and needlepoint, she may never have completed her pioneering work in computing. Reading time 4 minutes Ada Lovelace, known as the first computer ...

From 1832, when she was 17, Ada’s remarkable mathematical abilities began to emerge, and her interest in mathematics dominated her life even after her marriage in 1835 to William King, 8th Baron King, ...

My favourite Financial Times journalists are Lucy Kellaway and Gillian Tett. And I can’t help wondering if it is coincidental that both are women… Maybe, but maybe not. Neither of their approaches are ...

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 mathematician ...

An curved arrow pointing right. In her recently released book "Broad Band", Claire L. Evans wants readers to learn about women who have been forgotten in tech history. Ada Lovelace may not be a ...

The early Victorian Era was hardly a time for women to be cocky about their brilliance. But Countess Ada Lovelace, daughter of Lord Byron, didn’t care. Lovelace, who wrote the first computer program a ...

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For many women of her social station in her era, Ada Byron Lovelace's would have made her reputation—but Ada is known today for her pioneering work in what came to be computer science. With the ...

A manuscript written by Ada Lovelace, who's considered by many to be the first computer programmer, was just sold at auction for more than $125,000, the Guardian reports. A first edition and just one ...

Watercolor portrait of Ada Byron Lovelace. By Alfred Edward Chalon – Science Museum Group. Via Wikipedia. Augusta Ada Byron King was the only legitimate child of legendary Romantic poet Lord Byron.