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 ...

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 ...

In fact, the computer programming used to be a field dominated by women. Most of the first computer programmers were women, including Ada Lovelace, who invented the science of computer programming ...

AN ultra-rare book by the Victorian woman described as the “world's first computer programmer” is set to sell for £5,000 at auction. Ada Lovelace, the only legitimate child of Lord Byron, was ...

I took a trip to ground zero for today's computer revolution, Stanford University, and randomly asked over a dozen students if they knew who were the first computer programmers. Almost none knew.