In 1843, a 27-year-old Ada Lovelace wrote the first-ever computer program; her work still inspires modern technology centuries later

Ada Lovelace, the pioneering mathematician of the 19th century, dreamed of machines that could do more than calculate. She ...
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Over 100 years before the first computer, Ada Lovelace wrote the first program in 1842

Ada Lovelace, the daughter of British poet Lord Byron, is known as the first computer programmer.
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What was the first computer actually able to do?

The first computer didn’t show up looking like anything we’d call a computer now. There was no screen, no keyboard, no mouse, and definitely no controller waiting beside it. Early computers were built ...
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55 years ago, the ‘Mother of All Demos’ foresaw modern computing

On Dec. 9, 1968, Oregon-born engineer and inventor Douglas Engelbart hosted a computer demonstration so groundbreaking it is known today as the “Mother of All Demos.” In this screen grab from the 1968 ...