The only known photographs of mathematician and computing pioneer Ada Lovelace have been acquired by the National Portrait Gallery just before they were expected to be sold to a private buyer.

Ada Lovelace, arguably the first computer programmer, was born 200 years ago today. She worked with Charles Babbage on one of the earliest computers in 1843. A portrait of Ada Lovelace by Margaret ...

Three photographs of computing pioneer Ada Lovelace (1815-52) have been acquired by the National Portrait Gallery in a private treaty sale. The images, the only known photographs of the mathematician ...

A century before the first computer was developed, an Englishwoman named Ada Lovelace laid the theoretical groundwork for an all-purpose device that could solve a host of mathematically-based problems ...

Oct. 16 is the fourth "Ada Lovelace Day," on which women in science, tech, engineering and mathematics are celebrated for their work, whether contemporary or historical. Ada Lovelace was a ...

Meghan is an associate editor with EdTech. She enjoys coffee, cats and science fiction TV. At a time when education for most women was still hard to come by, Ada Lovelace — born Augusta Ada Byron in ...