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 ...

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.

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 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 ...

The idea that effective political speeches can be written by a computer program may strike some people as worrisome. Certainly, speechwriters who lose their job to an AI aren't going to like it.

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.

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 ...

The Asahi Shimbun reports that one of four books co-written by an AI program made it past the first stage of the contest.. Teams of writers worked with an AI program to create the cyborg novels ...

The world’s first computer program was written by Ada Lovelace, an English mathematician, in 1843 (an auspicious date for other reasons too). It was for a computer that did not exist. She was ...