Ada Lovelace is the consummate misunderstood genius. Growing up among the upper crust of 19th-century Britain, she was ground down by an overbearing mother who feared Ada’s imagination and punished ...

Nearly a month past and the finger-pointing hasn’t stopped over the Hillary Clinton campaign, everybody pointing at everything else. Of course, they all played their part—it’s never any one thing. But ...

Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, usually known as Ada Lovelace, was born to Byron and his wife, Annabella, in 1815. The parents had only been married about a year, and it wasn’t a happy union.

The story of Ada Lovelace would be irresistible even if she did not hold a singular place in the history of the computer. Her father was the celebrated poet Lord Byron. His brief marriage to Annabella ...