Coombs was the only woman out of a dozen internal candidates who applied to work on LEO (Mike Hally, LEO Computers Society) “It’s said that I’m the first female commercial programmer. It’s really ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...