LEXINGTON, Ky. (LEX 18) — Former Kentucky Secretary of State Bob Babbage is reflecting on the life and legacy of President Jimmy Carter, who passed away at 100 years old on Sunday. Babbage served as ...

In 1847, at the age of just twenty-seven, Ada Lovelace became the world’s first computer programmer—more than a century ...

E.ON Ruhrgas said today it is installing the first gas production platform at the Babbage field in the North Sea and expects the first gas in April 2010. In a world awash with information, Upstream ...

Englishman Charles Babbage (1791–1871), an eccentric, ingenious mathematician, decided that existing tables of computations included far too many errors: the day's textbooks came with errata sheets ...

Tucked away 90 feet underground lay thousands of records in a unique collection at the University. The collection tells the history of one of the most remarkable advances in human civilization – ...

Few nineteenth century inventions have had as much influence on modern technology as Charles Babbage’s calculating engines, which anticipated key aspects of today’s computers. In 1871, the Times ...