A century before the dawn of the computer age, Ada Lovelace imagined the modern-day, general-purpose computer. It could be programmed to follow instructions, she wrote in 1843. It could not just ...
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What was the first computer actually able to do?
The first computer didn’t show up looking like anything we’d call a computer now. There was no screen, no keyboard, no mouse, ...
Years before software programmers sat poised over their keyboards in sleek, expansive tech offices, women built the foundations of modern computer programming— in less-than-glamorous conditions. For ...
C. 2500 BCE: Sumerian abacus -- c. 700 BC: Scytale -- c. 150: Antikythera mechanism -- c. 60: Programmable robot -- c. 850: "On Deciphering Cryptographic Messages ...
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