Today is Ada Lovelace Day, a day celebrating the life of Lady Lovelace, a nineteeth-century countess who published a paper that might be the first computer program ever devised. Ada Lovelace Day uses ...
This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Someone encountering an “Analytical Engine” ...
In 1843, an anonymous English author translated an Italian paper about a theoretical computing machine, adding detailed notes and observations about the paper while doing so. The notes, which were ...