Ada Lovelace (Mathematics, Computer Science) Often celebrated as the first computer programmer, Ada Lovelace was a mathematician who worked on Charles Babbage’s early mechanical general-purpose ...

Charles Babbage's Difference Engine in 1832 was an ... Aptly named the "wearable roulette computer," all the device was doing was using mathematics to time the spinning of a roulette wheel ...

Trailblazing work in biocomputing earned Regents’ Professor Srinivas Aluru the 2025 Charles Babbage Award. The Institute of Electrical ... In March, the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics ...

When Ada was a teenager, her mother, Annabella Byron, had encouraged her study of mathematics, hiring tutors to instruct ... the one man who was capable of giving her such a project: Charles Babbage, ...

After becoming fascinated with mathematician Charles Babbage’s “Difference Engine ... at 16 after demonstrating a natural aptitude for math and making things. He started constructing ...

She was lucky in her mother’s friends and was introduced by the mathematician Mary Somerville to the polymath and maverick Charles Babbage. Now she is best ... She numbered among her interests ...

Three of them were: Jane Marcet (who wrote educational material on chemistry); Mary Somerville (who did the same for maths and physics); and Ada Lovelace (famous for helping Charles Babbage with ...