Ada Lovelace Day: Celebrating the world's first computer programmer
From phrenology to the Analytical Engine, Lovelace blazed towards a critical IT function
Happy Ada Lovelace Day. Much has been said, written and even drawn about this true luminary of early computing, and most of it is true (except perhaps the ray guns). If Charles Babbage designed the...
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