Today is Ada Lovelace Day, a day celebrating the life of Lady Lovelace, a nineteeth-century countess who published a paper that might be the first computer program ever devised. Ada Lovelace Day uses ...

In 1843, an anonymous English author translated an Italian paper about a theoretical computing machine, adding detailed notes and observations about the paper while doing so. The notes, which were ...

Many fields of science have a foundational document: Isaac Newton’s Principia for the physics of classical mechanics, for example, or Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species for evolutionary biology ...

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