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 ...

The low numbers of female computer science majors may have roots in the mid-1980s and the rise of personal computers Maris Fessenden Former correspondent In 1833, seventeen-year-old Ada Lovelace met ...