Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, usually known as Ada Lovelace, was born to Byron and his wife, Annabella, in 1815. The parents had only been married about a year, and it wasn’t a happy union.

A rare 175 year-old book containing the world's first computer algorithm by Ada Lovelace – mathematician and daughter of Lord Byron – has been sold at auction in England for £95,000 (US$125,000). Only ...

A manuscript written by Ada Lovelace, who's considered by many to be the first computer programmer, was just sold at auction for more than $125,000, the Guardian reports. A first edition and just one ...

The name Ada Lovelace probably who won’t mean anything to you. But all that will change when you read Julia Gray’s intriguing new YA novel I, Ada. Lovelace is credited with being the world’s first ...

Ada Lovelace is the consummate misunderstood genius. Growing up among the upper crust of 19th-century Britain, she was ground down by an overbearing mother who feared Ada’s imagination and punished ...