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 ...

Joseph Weizenbaum realized that programs like his Eliza chatbot could "induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks to mathematician Eugenia Cheng about the Pascaline — a 17th-century invention credited as the first mechanical calculator. Blaise Pascal was a mathematician, a scientist, a ...