A century before the dawn of the computer age, Ada Lovelace imagined the modern-day, general-purpose computer. It could be programmed to follow instructions, she wrote in 1843. It could not just ...

From 1832, when she was 17, Ada’s remarkable mathematical abilities began to emerge, and her interest in mathematics dominated her life even after her marriage in 1835 to William King, 8th Baron King, ...

Ada Lovelace, known as the first computer programmer, was born on Dec. 10, 1815, more than a century before digital electronic computers were developed. Lovelace has been hailed as a model for girls ...

As Britain hums with the innovations of the Industrial Revolution, a young woman envisions a machine unlike any the world has seen, one that could go beyond arithmetic to manipulate symbols, generate ...

A gifted mathematician, Augusta Ada King, the Right Honourable Countess of Lovelace, later known as Ada Lovelace, is considered to have written instructions for the first computer program in the ...

But Lovelace — properly Ada King, Countess of Lovelace after her marriage — drew on many different fields for her innovative work, including languages, music and needlecraft, ...