Analysis Nervous System: The Countess of Lovelace, the First Computer Programmer For many women of her social station in her era, Ada Byron Lovelace's would have made her reputation—but Ada is ...

Nearly a hundred years would pass before the first practical computer was built for WW II. Imagine how much faster we might have progressed if Ada did not suffer an untimely passing at age 36 in 1852.

Ada Lovelace, known as the first computer programmer, was born on Dec. 10, 1815, more than a century before digital electronic computers were developed.

Ada Lovelace was the daughter of the poet Lord Byron. She was a mathematician in the Victorian Age, the very first computer programmer.

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 ...

Plans have been drawn up to celebrate gifted 19th Century mathematician Ada Lovelace in the town near to where she lived as a ...

Stanley (Mozart: The Wonder Child) delivers a breezy but insightful overview of the curiosity and determination that drove Ada Lovelace (1815–1852) to pursue her intellectual passions, tracing ...

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 ...

Now, every year in mid-October, the world has a chance to recognize Lady Ada, the woman often nominated as the first computer programmer.

"It's not necessarily [an] electronic computer. I think it's more like a mechanic computer." She's thinking of Ada Lovelace, also known as the Countess of Lovelace, born in 1815.

In 1837, Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace began work on what they called the Analytical Engine, what would have been the World’s first computer. Unfortunately, it was never completed.

South Dakota Mines assistant professor Erica Haugtvedt has studied Lovelace’s life and will present “Ada Lovelace: First Computer Programmer?” at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 20, via Zoom.