Yesterday marked the anniversary of the 1871 death of Charles Babbage, the English mathematician and inventor credited with conceiving plans for the world's first programmable non-digital computer. It ...

Ironic, but just a few weeks before Ada Lovelace Day, celebrating the woman who programmed Charles Babbage's unbuilt Difference Engine, we found that Babbage's design principles may have real 21st ...

Created by Charles Babbage, the Analytical Engine was a general-purpose, completely program-controlled, mechanical digital computer with no human intervention. It was designed to be programmed using ...

It took only 150 years, but British mathematician Charles Babbage has received some measure of vindication. Babbage, who did his best work in the mid-1800s, was never able to build one of his ...

Frustrated by human error, mathematician and inventor Charles Babbage designed a machine to perform mathematical functions and automatically print the results. Library of Congress When today’s number ...

Robyn Williams: If you go to the Science Museum in London you can see the recreation of Charles Babbage's design for the first computer back in the middle of the 19th century. We have a version here ...

For those who haven’t yet heard, a band of number-crunching nostalgists took the concept design for Charles Babbage’s Difference Engine No. 2, and turned it into a real, fully functional machine. But ...

For many of us, the computer is the symbol of our hypermodernity, the image of how vastly we differ--culturally, economically, socially and politically--from past generations. And many of us think of ...

In 1837, British mathematician Charles Babbage produced the very first description of a computer. He called it the analytical engine and spent the rest of his life refining, but never completing, it.