Ada Lovelace was the world’s first computer programmer. Too bad nobody has that title anymore. Born in 1815, Lovelace was a 19th-century English mathematician credited with first interpreting how to ...

This week, as Popular Mechanics celebrates the 50th anniversary of the development of the internet, we honor the women who helped shape the way we connect with the world around us. They were early ...

Henriette Davidson Avram didn’t set out to revolutionize libraries, but that’s what she did. Born in Manhattan in 1919, Avram had visions of a career in medicine and began premedical studies at Hunter ...