This article was originally published on November 3, 2022. Ada Byron was on her best behavior when first presented to the British Royal Court — though she found the event and its attendees to be ...

Resembling the myths of the ancient Greeks, romanticised stories about science feature brilliant geniuses who make spectacular breakthroughs. Apart from Marie Skodowska Curie, virtually all these ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ada Lovelace… if you are reading this right now, she has had an impact on your life. (Picture: Alamy) Ada Lovelace is so important she’s even got a day dedicated to her memory. Okay, so it’s not ...

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 ...

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 ...

Here's what we know about Lord Byron's gifted daughter and how she's helping raise the profile of women in science and tech NINETEENTH century mathematician Ada Lovelace imagined the modern-day ...

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