A rare 175 year-old book containing the world's first computer algorithm by Ada Lovelace – mathematician and daughter of Lord Byron – has been sold at auction in England for £95,000 (US$125,000). Only ...

A manuscript written by Ada Lovelace, who's considered by many to be the first computer programmer, was just sold at auction for more than $125,000, the Guardian reports. A first edition and just one ...

The name “Ada Lovelace” sounds like a curtsy and a combat boot to your petticoat all at once. And that sort of sums her up: The daughter of bad-boy Romantic poet George Gordon Byron, who ditched her ...

Behind every great man, there’s a great woman; no other adage more aptly describes the relationship between Charles Babbage, the man credited with thinking up the concept of the programmable computer, ...

The story of Ada Lovelace would be irresistible even if she did not hold a singular place in the history of the computer. Her father was the celebrated poet Lord Byron. His brief marriage to Annabella ...

This article originally appeared in The Last Word on Nothing. Tagline: “Science says the first word on everything, and the last word on nothing”—Victor Hugo. I’m not, in general, huge on holidays. I ...

The first programmable computer—if it were built—would have been a gigantic, mechanical thing clunking along with gears and levers and punch cards. That was the vision for Analytical Engine devised by ...

Nearly a month past and the finger-pointing hasn’t stopped over the Hillary Clinton campaign, everybody pointing at everything else. Of course, they all played their part—it’s never any one thing. But ...

Ada Lovelace, arguably the first computer programmer, was born on December 10, 1815. Lovelace was an English mathematician and writer chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage‘s early mechanical ...

Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, usually known as Ada Lovelace, was born to Byron and his wife, Annabella, in 1815. The parents had only been married about a year, and it wasn’t a happy union.

Ada Lovelace is the consummate misunderstood genius. Growing up among the upper crust of 19th-century Britain, she was ground down by an overbearing mother who feared Ada’s imagination and punished ...