Excerpted from Beyond Eureka! The Rocky Roads to Innovating by Marylene Delbourg-Delphis, with a foreword by Guy Kawasaki (Georgetown University Press). Lord Byron’s daughter, Ada Lovelace (1815–52), ...
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 ...
Whether it’s an app, a software feature, or an interface element, programmers possess the magical ability to create something new out of virtually nothing. Just give them the hardware and a coding ...
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 ...
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, ...