A statue of pioneering 19th Century mathematician Ada Lovelace has been installed in the town near her childhood home.

Alison Owen and Debra Hayward's upstart indie also is working with The Science & Entertainment Exchange to develop the film about the computer science visionary and daughter of Lord Byron. By Alex ...

The only known photographs of Ada Lovelace have been acquired by London's National Portrait Gallery after going up for ...

On Monday, Google celebrates the 197th birthday of Ada Lovelace, a computer programmer whose accomplishments are celebrated every October on "Ada Lovelace Day." Lovelace, the daughter of Lord George ...

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 ...

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 ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Someone encountering an “Analytical Engine” ...

This Thursday, Dec. 10, is the 200th birthday of Ada Lovelace, a pioneer in the discipline of computer science. Tutored from childhood in mathematics and logic, at 17 Lovelace was introduced to ...

Ada Lovelace Day, founded in 2009, is a time to celebrate the work of women in science, technology, engineering and math fields. She is considered influential enough that she was the subject of one of ...