In 1847, at the age of just twenty-seven, Ada Lovelace became the world’s first computer programmer—more than a century before the first computer was even built. This almost sounds like a myth, or the ...
From 1832, when she was 17, Ada’s remarkable mathematical abilities began to emerge, and her interest in mathematics dominated her life even after her marriage in 1835 to William King, 8th Baron King, ...
Late computer programming Italian teenager Carlo Acutis became the first millennial saint on Sunday. Pope Leo XIV held Acutis’s canonization Mass on Sunday, making Acutis his first canonization during ...