Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

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 ...

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 ...

The second Tuesday in October is Ada Lovelace Day, a day to celebrate and encourage the accomplishments of women in science, technology, and engineering. But who was Ada Lovelace? She wrote the first ...

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 ...

History books aren't often filled with the accomplishments of women, unfortunately. So you might not have known that the world's first computer programmer was a woman — or that her name was Ada ...

Without Ada Lovelace’s skills with language, music, and needlepoint, she may never have completed her pioneering work in computing. Reading time 4 minutes Ada Lovelace, known as the first computer ...

Today is Ada Lovelace Day, a day to celebrate and encourage women in the fields of science and technology. The day is named after Augusta Ada King-Noel, Countess of Lovelace, born Byron. (You can see ...

Silicon Valley has, for a long time, been a boys club, and there are definitely horror stories about the sexism and discrimination faced by women in the tech industry. Fortunately, there's a new ...