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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 ...

Over 60 years ago the first narrative video game designer, Mabel Addis, created the first educational computer game: The ...

When you think of the tech industry and all of the computer programmers employed there, it is likely that you think of a bunch of young men in their 20’s wearing jeans and hoodies, who love to play as ...

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 ...

My favourite Financial Times journalists are Lucy Kellaway and Gillian Tett. And I can’t help wondering if it is coincidental that both are women… Maybe, but maybe not. Neither of their approaches are ...

The Innovators, Walter Isaacson's new book, tells the stories of the people who created modern computers. Women, who are now a minority in... The Forgotten Female Programmers Who Created Modern Tech ...