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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 ...

Ada Lovelace was the world’s first computer programmer. Too bad nobody has that title anymore. Born in 1815, Lovelace was a 19th-century English mathematician credited with first interpreting how to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Job displacement is a serious issue everywhere, but professional computer science majors should get ready for a tightening of the ...

If your image of a computer programmer is a young man, there's a good reason: It's true. Recently, many big tech companies revealed how few of their female employees worked in programming and ...

The Innovators, Walter Isaacson's new book, tells the stories of the people who created modern computers. Women, who are now a minority in... The Forgotten Female Programmers Who Created Modern Tech ...