A century before the dawn of the computer age, Ada Lovelace imagined the modern-day, general-purpose computer. It could be programmed to follow instructions, she wrote in 1843. It could not just ...

In 1843, Ada Lovelace published a set of notes that would later earn her recognition as the first computer programmer. At the time, no electronic computer existed, and even mechanical computing ...

The question of who invented the first computer and when was the computer invented has a complex answer that spans centuries of innovation. Many people assume a single inventor and a specific date, ...

A statue honouring “formidable” 19th-century computing pioneer Ada Lovelace has been given the go ahead. The bronze statue will sit outside North Warwickshire And South Leicestershire College on Lower ...