Seeing as you’re reading this on a computer, tablet or smartphone, it should. The Victorian mother-of-three, born 1815, was the world’s first ever computer programmer.

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 ...

A century before the first computers, Ada Lovelace wrote a study on the potential of Charles Babbage’s yet-to-be-built Analytical Engine. Babbage’s Analytical Engine is regarded as the world ...

Ada Lovelace may not be a household name like Steve Jobs but she is possibly the first computer programmer.

Though Ada Lovelace was excluded from higher education, she is the world's first computer programmer — and her mathematical contributions form the foundations of computer science.

Tuesday marks Ada Lovelace Day, designated to celebrate the woman who is widely regarded as the world's first computer programmer and original BAMF for her work in the early 1800s. The day honors ...

IT IS difficult to imagine the world today without the presence of technology and computers to help organise our day-to-day tasks. Computer programmers have transformed the way we live and ...

In the 1940s, the U.S. Army funded the development of the world’s first all-electronic general purpose computer known as the Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer, or simply ENIAC, which ...

Computer scientist Mary Lee Berners-Lee has died after a life which saw her as a champion for equal pay, the world’s first freelance programmer and the mother of the bloke who invented the world ...