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

Perhaps the most exceptional mind to think about thinking machines before 1956 was the British mathematician Alan Turing.

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Englishman Charles Babbage (1791–1871), an eccentric, ingenious mathematician, decided that existing tables of computations included far too many errors: the day's textbooks came with errata sheets ...

Ada is also further celebrated in Hucknall with a footpath leading into the church has been named Ada Lovelace Walk from ...