In 1847, at the age of just twenty-seven, Ada Lovelace became the world’s first computer programmer—more than a century ...

The Conversation spotlights Ada Lovelace, a female programming pioneer, more than a century before digital electronic computers were developed, for Women's History Month.

Autograph letter signed, handwritten in black ink on unlined paper with a color printed letterhead and the word "Lundi." Charles Babbage KH FRS was an English mathematician, philosopher, inventor and ...