Google celebrated the 197th birthday of Ada Lovelace, oft dubbed the first computer programmer, in its Google Doodle on Monday. Lovelace is pictured in the search engine’s worldwide homepage logo, ...

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, ...

Reading through most accounts of history, we could be forgiven for assuming that women were not the warriors, the great thinkers nor the pioneering scientists who shaped and changed our world. That ...

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 ...

Ada Lovelace, arguably the first computer programmer, was born 200 years ago today. She worked with Charles Babbage on one of the earliest computers in 1843. A portrait of Ada Lovelace by Margaret ...

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 ...

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Ada Lovelace, the first computer programmer, was born on December 10, 1815, more than a century before digital electronic computers were developed. But Lovelace — properly Ada King, Countess of ...

Augusta Ada, Countess Lovelace, (nee Byron) (1815 - 1852) 1st wife of William King the first earl. Photo by Donaldson Collections/Getty Images Ada Lovelace, known as the first computer programmer, was ...