TORONTO – Some refer to her as the “enchantress of numbers,” others credit her with being the world’s first computer programmer and her work is often attributed to the early history of computing.

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

TORONTO – Ada Lovelace is remembered as many things, including the “enchantress of numbers” and “the first lady of computers.” Possibly her most important distinction is that of world’s first computer ...

Women in STEM is a popular term you would have heard, and it is well-celebrated in the modern age. However, what about the women who laid the stepping stones for the term? Women who not only broke ...