This article was originally published on November 3, 2022. Ada Byron was on her best behavior when first presented to the British Royal Court — though she found the event and its attendees to be ...

Resembling the myths of the ancient Greeks, romanticised stories about science feature brilliant geniuses who make spectacular breakthroughs. Apart from Marie Skodowska Curie, virtually all these ...

Ada Lovelace Day celebrates the success of the world’s first computer programmer. But did you know that the UK’s leading software pioneers were also women? Their story is inspiring for young women ...

Despite being the daughter of the passionate Romantic era poet, she had a brilliant mind for maths and logic. Today is the bicentenary of her birth, a day that by rights should be set aside to ...

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 ...

Rare book by ‘world's first computer programmer’ – Byron's daughter – up £5,000 at auction AN ultra-rare book by the Victorian woman described as the “world's first computer programmer” is set to sell ...

What came first, the chicken or the egg? The computer or the computer program? If you happen to do anything other than sleep in a cave today, chances are you have Ada Lovelace to thank for it. She is ...

Coombs was the only woman out of a dozen internal candidates who applied to work on LEO (Mike Hally, LEO Computers Society) “It’s said that I’m the first female commercial programmer. It’s really ...

Ellen Ullman's first computer was a Radio Shack TRS-80, a squat little machine with a chunky cassette deck for the data on which she taught herself how to program. It was the 1970s and Ullman, who had ...