Yesterday marked the anniversary of the 1871 death of Charles Babbage, the English mathematician and inventor credited with conceiving plans for the world's first programmable non-digital computer. It ...

It was coincidence that Monday marked the anniversary of the death in 1871 of Charles Babbage, the English mathematician and inventor credited with conceiving plans for the world's first programmable ...

A fully-functional Babbage Difference Engine? That's been done and duplicated. But the even more ambitious Babbage Analytical Engine? That's another story completely. Devised by mathematician Charles ...

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What if Charles Babbage, inventor of the mechanical computer, and Ada Lovelace, the first computer programmer and daughter of Lord Byron, had completed Babbage’s difference engine and then teamed up ...

Do you ever wonder who you should thank for the laptops and desktops that make your life easier every day? It's Charles Babbage, English mathematician and inventor and not just the companies that are ...

19th century inventor Charles Babbage never lived to finish his analytical engine, a punchcard computer that was decades ahead of its time, but now Babbage aficionados are finally building this device ...

Can you say "Yowza!" when discussing Victorian England? Let's hope so, because Sydney Padua's new book is definitely "Yowza!" material. Considering that its subject is math — math and the history of ...

Charles Babbage, the man whom many consider to be the father of modern computing, never got to complete any of his life's work. The Victorian gentleman was a brilliant mathematician, but he wasn't ...

Portrait of Ada Lovelace at age 20 (from The New York Public Library) Ada Lovelace was born 200 years ago this month. To some she is a great hero in the history of computing; to others an ...