The low participation rate of females in computing has been a problem for many years – and it’s getting worse. In general, fewer women enroll in STEM classes than men, but in computing the difference ...

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 ...

The first programmers weren't men, and the first computers weren't machines. What they were, in both cases, were women. SEE ALSO: The female mentors making a difference in Silicon Valley Women's many ...

The other day, my friend Ned’s cousin asked Ned what he thought was the best first language for new programmers. The cousin didn’t have much computing experience, but at 15 years old the future was ...

My favourite Financial Times journalists are Lucy Kellaway and Gillian Tett. And I can’t help wondering if it is coincidental that both are women… Maybe, but maybe not. Neither of their approaches are ...

Today's Google Doodle honors Grace Hopper, one of the first computer programmers to work on the Mark I computer for the Navy in the 1940s. Tasked with maintaining the computer that helped the Navy ...