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 ...

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This Women’s History Month, we look at how women’s innovations have advanced the field of computer programming. View on euronews ...

The woman credited with being the first computer programmer has scored her own Google Doodle. Augusta Ada King, the Countess of Lovelace - commonly known as Ada Lovelace - is known for her ...