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 ...

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 ...

*So, if you've got an unbuilt vaporware computer that's not really a real computer yet, you've got to have some science fiction writer horn in – a pop-science guy ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

23 October 1871: Babbage’s calculating machines are seen as the forerunners of modern programmable computers The death is announced of Mr Charles Babbage, who has long held high rank among the ...

Charles Babbage, the man whom many consider to be the father of modern computing, never got to complete any of his life's work. The Victorian gentleman was a brilliant mathematician, but he wasn't ...

OVER the years, Babbage has been fascinated by start-up companies. Start-ups bring novel technology to the marketplace in the hope of making a fortune for their creators by making life richer, easier, ...