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 ...

From 1832, when she was 17, Ada’s remarkable mathematical abilities began to emerge, and her interest in mathematics dominated her life even after her marriage in 1835 to William King, 8th Baron King, ...

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 ...

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この2人の女性、誰だか分かります？ そしてその関係は？ 向かって左側のウインクをしているのはイギリス人の歌手／女優Zooey Deschanel。そして右側のポートレートはAda Lovelace。 Ada Lovelaceといえば、ご存知の方も多いかと思いますが、Lord Byronを父に持つ1852年 ...

While the Dartmouth workshop in 1956 is the official birthplace of AI, it wasn’t the first time that people had thought about building thinking machines. However, without access to computers, there ...