Rebecca Cook, Ground Terminal and Infrastructure Manager at Northrop Grumman Space Systems, is the UNSW Women in Engineering Ada Lovelace Medal for ...

What happens when your mother was called ‘the princess of parallelograms’ and your father one of the best poets history has ...

He is Charles Babbage, the man who more than 150 years ago first faintly glimpsed today's computer age and strove to reach it. The Difference Engine is a calculator.

Charles Babbage was popularly known as the ‘Father of the Computer.’ First electronic digital computer In 1945, the first electronic-general purpose digital computer was created by J.Presper ...

From this year, December 26, the birth anniversary of Charles Babbage [an English mathematician and inventor who is credited with having conceived the first automatic digital computer] will be ...

Acclaimed as a mathematical genius, Ada Lovelace is said to have understood the potential of the first computer blueprints better than their inventor. A serendipitous friendship with the ...

In 1833, the year they met, Babbage had begun designing the first general-­purpose mechanical computer, called the analytical engine. The idea captivated Love­lace, and the two became close ...

Ada Lovelace has been called the world’s first “computer programmer.” In the 1840s, she wrote the world’s first machine algorithm for an early computing machine that existed only on paper ...

So the true story goes: When Lovelace was 18, her tutor Mary Somerville introduced her to engineer and inventor Charles Babbage, who was at work on designing early mechanical computing devices.

Charles Babbage is renowned worldwide as the designer of the first programmable mechanical computer, in 1834. Babbage’s “Analytical Engine” was designed to solve any equation by simply ...

It's Charles Babbage, English mathematician and inventor and not just the companies that are manufacturing and updating the computer. Let’s see who Charles Babbage is and why you need to ...