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 ...

Mary Coombs, pioneering woman programmer on LEO, the world’s first business computer – obituary She joined the computing team at J Lyons in 1952 when there were just three programmers, all men, and ...

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 ...

Ada Lovelace was the world’s first computer programmer. Too bad nobody has that title anymore. Born in 1815, Lovelace was a 19th-century English mathematician credited with first interpreting how to ...

It's not much bigger than your finger, it looks like a leftover from an electronics factory, but its makers believe their £15 computer could help a new generation discover programming. The games ...