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 ...

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 ...

In 1847, at the age of just twenty-seven, Ada Lovelace became the world’s first computer programmer—more than a century before the first computer was even built. This almost sounds like a myth, or the ...

Years before software programmers sat poised over their keyboards in sleek, expansive tech offices, women built the foundations of modern computer programming— in less-than-glamorous conditions. For ...

Coding, also known as computer programming, is the process of translating human instructions into a language that tells machines what, how, and when to perform those tasks. When instructing a computer ...

Some minds were so far ahead of their time that the world couldn’t even understand them. This story focuses on a 19th century heiress who predicted what computers could become long before they existed ...

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 ...