Ada backers hope the newly approved Ada 2005 version of the venerable programming language will help extend its appeal for real-time embedded applications beyond its current military/ aerospace niche.

The Ada programming language has been around for years, but its use has typically been restricted to military and space applications. Bill takes a look at AdaCore’s support of the new Ada 2005 ...

From 1832, when she was 17, Ada’s remarkable mathematical abilities began to emerge, and her interest in mathematics dominated her life even after her marriage in 1835 to William King, 8th Baron King, ...

Ada Lovelace, known as the first computer programmer, was born on Dec. 10, 1815, more than a century before digital electronic computers were developed. Lovelace has been hailed as a model for girls ...

Ada a general purpose programming language that incorporates advanced programming features like contracts and object oriented programming support. SPARK is a subset of the latest version of Ada that ...

A year-old story about a programming language that fell out of favor 12 years ago takes the Web by storm. When one of the most popular stories of the week on our sister Web site, GCN.com, is about the ...

Despite being the daughter of the passionate Romantic era poet, she had a brilliant mind for maths and logic. Today is the bicentenary of her birth, a day that by rights should be set aside to ...

My favourite Financial Times journalists are Lucy Kellaway and Gillian Tett. And I can’t help wondering if it is coincidental that both are women… Maybe, but maybe not. Neither of their approaches are ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. A former tech executive covering AI, XR and The Metaverse for Forbes. Marco Tempest is a Creative Technologist at the NASA Jet ...

Whether it’s an app, a software feature, or an interface element, programmers possess the magical ability to create something new out of virtually nothing. Just give them the hardware and a coding ...