The trailblazing engineer was co-inventor of a technique for designing computer chips that laid the groundwork for the computing revolution.
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Our modern lives are influenced by algorithms at every step. We can trace this influence back more than 1,200 years ago – to a Muslim mathematician.
I’m hunting for the woman whose use of an early chatbot turned the inventor against his creation.
Apple’s phenomenal success and the field of user experience design can be traced back to the launch of the Macintosh personal computer.
Lovelace was a prodigious math talent who learned from the giants of her time, but her linguistic and creative abilities were also important in her invention of computer programming.
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