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 ...

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 ...

3 ICYMI: Meet the Next On Stage: Season 6 Finalists 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

*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 ...

Charles Babbage is widely recognized as a pioneer of the programable computer due to his ingenious designs for steam-driven calculating machines in the 19th century. But Babbage drew inspiration from ...

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 ...