The first programmable computer—if it were built—would have been a gigantic, mechanical thing clunking along with gears and levers and punch cards. That was the vision for Analytical Engine devised by ...

To most people, the phrase “electronic computer” conjures up a baffling maze of wires, transistors, magnetic tapes, punch cards, and the like, which can somehow or other be used to solve problems of ...

Ada Lovelace, daughter of poet Lord Byron and mathematician Annabella Milbanke, became the world's first programmer in 1843 with her algorithm for Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine. Learning to ...

In 1843, Ada Lovelace published a set of notes that would later earn her recognition as the first computer programmer. At the time, no electronic computer existed, and even mechanical computing ...

Ada Lovelace’s wisdom about the first general-purpose computer can be found buried in the appendix of another paper Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, better known as Ada Lovelace, was ...

The second Tuesday in October is Ada Lovelace Day, a day to celebrate and encourage the accomplishments of women in science, technology, and engineering. But who was Ada Lovelace? She wrote the first ...

Steam-punk is alive and well in the UK thanks to a mounting campaign to build a massive steam-powered computer that was first conceived in 1837. The campaign to construct Charles Babbage’s Analytical ...

A programmable calculator designed by British scientist Charles Babbage. After his Difference Engine failed its test in 1833, Babbage started the design of the Analytical Engine in 1834. Developed in ...