TORONTO – Some refer to her as the “enchantress of numbers,” others credit her with being the world’s first computer programmer and her work is often attributed to the early history of computing.

Despite being the daughter of the passionate Romantic era poet, she had a brilliant mind for maths and logic. Today is the bicentenary of her birth, a day that by rights should be set aside to ...

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 ...

Google celebrated the 197th birthday of Ada Lovelace, oft dubbed the first computer programmer, in its Google Doodle on Monday. Lovelace is pictured in the search engine’s worldwide homepage logo, ...

The woman credited with being the first computer programmer has scored her own Google Doodle. Augusta Ada King, the Countess of Lovelace - commonly known as Ada Lovelace - is known for her ...