What happens when your mother was called ‘the princess of parallelograms’ and your father one of the best poets history has ...

Charles Babbage’s analytical machine. Wikimedia, CC BY Her 1842 notes to Babbage, exploring the potential of his proposed device, foresaw something akin to AI in future.

This was a general purpose mechanical computer, which was never completed, but its design mirrored that of computers decades later. Charles Babbage’s analytical machine. Wikimedia, CC BY Her 1842 ...

AT a meeting of the Newcomen Society held at the Science Museum on December 13, Dr. L. H. D. Buxton read a paper on Charles Babbage and his difference engine, during which he gave a sketch of the ...

Al­­though Babbage understood the power of programmability, he still viewed the analytical engine as a purely mathematical de­­vice. Only Lovelace foresaw the true po­­­ten­tial of the ...

The turning point in Ada’s life and a significant contributor to the computer age was when she was introduced to Charles Babbage at the age of 17, who is now considered the ‘Father of the ...

While developing her mathematical expertise, and writing on Charles Babbage's Analytical calculating machine, in her brilliant notes she suggested that it could carry out more than just ...

Charles Babbage was born on December 26, 1791 at 44 Crosby Row at Walworth Road in London England. (Though there is some dispute regarding his palace of birth, the location is as stated in the ...

Ada Lovelace, daughter of poet Lord Byron and mathematician Annabella Milbanke, became the world's first programmer in 1843 with her algorithm for Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine.

Charles Babbage, a British mathematician and mechanical engineer born in 1791, dabbled in any number of scientific endeavors in his lifetime. In the 1820s, Babbage began devising a machine that ...