Back in 1843, long before computers shaped the modern world, Ada Lovelace, a 27-year-old British mathematician, saw a future no one else did. She imagined a machine that didn’t just crunch numbers but ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. And while the computer as we know it today evolved years later, the groundwork for it all began in the 19th century with one woman ...

Acclaimed as a mathematical genius, Ada Lovelace is said to have understood the potential of the first computer blueprints better than their inventor. A serendipitous friendship with the mathematician ...

Ada Lovelace, arguably the first computer programmer, was born 200 years ago today. She worked with Charles Babbage on one of the earliest computers in 1843. A portrait of Ada Lovelace by Margaret ...

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

Excerpted from Beyond Eureka! The Rocky Roads to Innovating by Marylene Delbourg-Delphis, with a foreword by Guy Kawasaki (Georgetown University Press). Lord Byron’s daughter, Ada Lovelace (1815–52), ...