Angel Lin plays Ada Lovelace, a math genius and daughter of the infamous poet Lord Byron, in “Ada and the Engine” at The Pear. Courtesy Mikenzie Gilbert Photography. Seeing “Ada and the Engine” is ...

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 ...

Innovation stems from the minds of individuals who recognize a need and strive to develop a new way to fill it. One such innovation was the difference engine, an automatic mechanical calculator ...

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 ...

The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage plays for four performances from Friday and Saturday, February 3 and February 4, 2022 at 7:30PM to Saturday and Sunday, February 4 and February 5, 2022 ...

ON THE 150th anniversary of the death of Charles Babbage, we retrace the footsteps of the brilliant but irascible British inventor, mathematician and engineer. Host Kenneth Cukier investigates why ...

*Reading some Charles Babbage lately on manufacturing and economics, a topic Babbage took up while attempting and failing to build a computer. It's odd how maker-like Babbage's attitude is: he's a ...

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 ...

Babbage intends to develop a best-in-class cryptocurrency miner with the objective to generate revenue through Proof of Stake ("POS") mining for tokens, with the ultimate aim of giving its ...

Spirit Energy is to become operator of the Babbage field in the UK southern North Sea, the company has confirmed. Spirit, which already holds a 13% interest in the licence, will also take on ...