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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 ...

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 ...

The Innovators, Walter Isaacson's new book, tells the stories of the people who created modern computers. Women, who are now a minority in... The Forgotten Female Programmers Who Created Modern Tech ...