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 ...

With this note, Lovelace had written the first computer program—for a machine that did not even exist, and was known only by description. Poetical science.

It’s widely accepted that the first computer program was written by Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, in 1842, although a device for which it was intended wasn’t built in her lifetime.

The Ferranti Mark I, delivered in early 1951, was the first commercially available general-purpose computer and became a fertile ground for early AI experiments. It was built around vacuum-tube ...

First Computer Program, Product Scan And Commercial Video Call: This Week In Tech History. ... and a competition was organized to find the most interesting new program written for it.

The first ever computer manual which was written by a Victorian woman 175 years ago has been sold at auction for nearly £100,000 ($131,000) - nearly 20 times its expected price. The edition ...

In the same year, Kemeny applied for a National Science Foundation grant to bring a GE-225 computer to Dartmouth and build the first fully functional general-purpose time-sharing system. Despite ...