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 ...

Ada Lovelace Day, founded in 2009, is a time to celebrate the work of women in science, technology, engineering and math fields. She is considered influential enough that she was the subject of one of ...

These days, we back up every email we send without even thinking about it, and we look to our computers to tell us the weather rather than looking outside. Today’s teenagers will never know a world ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Today's Google logo celebrates mathematician Ada Lovelace, widely credited as the world’s first computer programmer. Her work on Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine is the first example of an ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Someone encountering an “Analytical Engine” ...

A view of the Ada Lovelace exhibit at the Science Museum in London, England. A century before the first computer was developed, an Englishwoman named Ada Lovelace laid the theoretical groundwork for ...

Kooky-actress-it’s-ok-to-worship Zooey Deschanel has apparently been cast as Ada Lovelace in a new film chronicling her life, Enchantress of Numbers. Lovelace, who died in 1852, was an English woman ...

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 ...

Today on Google is a special logo, aka Google Doodle, for Ada Lovelace. Ada Lovelace was born 197 years ago today and invented the first algorithm or computer program in 1842. That means she invented ...