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 ...

Many people vaguely know Ada Lovelace as the inventor of the first computer. Is this claim true? To get straight to the point, it is not. To understand Lovelace's true contributions, we must first ...