Lovelace & Babbage is a fanciful and historical collection of bricks that pays homage to the Victorian roots of the computer age. The set, proposed by Stewart Lamb Cromar over at LEGO Ideas, centers ...

The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage plays for four performances from Friday and Saturday, February 3 and February 4, 2022 at 7:30PM to Saturday and Sunday, February 4 and February 5, 2022 ...

As it happens Charles Babbage died on this day in 1871. As I sit facing my computer I find myself thinking about him, and of course, the countess, and, well… Charles Babbage was born. Of that we’re ...

In an era when computers were thought to be capable only of handling numbers, there was someone who imagined what might ...

Sydney Padua's rollicking graphic novel about computing pioneers Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace transforms punch cards and little brass cogs... Can you say "Yowza!" when discussing Victorian England ...

Tuesday was Ada Lovelace Day, a day when we celebrate women in science and remember the contributions of Augusta Ada Byron, later the Countess of Lovelace, who wrote devised an algorithm for Charles ...

Lovelace after having imagined all this also set limits. She wrote that the engine couldn’t originate anything on its own ...

Ada Lovelace is having a moment. The Victorian mathematician and proto-computer programmer has long been one of precious few historical role models for scientifically inclined young girls; but as the ...

You know you want this badass Victorian scientist to glower at you from a corner of your desk accompanied by her massive steampunkish Analytical Engine and an oversized spanner. Ada Lovelace and her ...

This article is perfectly appropriate for Engineers Week this week. I focus here especially on women in engineering. Myra Sadker once said, “If the cure for cancer is in the mind of a girl, we may ...

This article was taken from the June issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content ...

Can you say "Yowza!" when discussing Victorian England? Let's hope so, because Sydney Padua's new book is definitely "Yowza!" material. Considering that its subject is math — math and the history of ...