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 ...

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 ...

Google is celebrating the 197th birthday of Ada Lovelace - considered to be the world's first computer programmer - with a homepage doodle that honors her contributions to computer science. The doodle ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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The annual celebration of women's achievements in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) is named after the woman regarded as the world's first computer programmer. Born two centuries ago ...