Re: Ada movie, was Computer History Museum, UPCOMING EVENTS

[Jeffrey Carter <jrcarter@acm.org>]

tmoran@acm.org wrote:
> It was a rather good movie about Ada Augusta Lovelace.

Who is this Ada Augusta Lovelace person I keep hearing about? She 
certainly has nothing to do with c.l.a.

Once there was a little girl named Augusta, the only legitimate child of 
the poet Byron. She was named after her father's half sister. When her 
mother found out that Byron and his half sister had had an affair, she 
refused to use the name Augusta for the girl and from then on she was 
known by her middle name, Ada.

When she grew up, Ada married Mr. King and became Ada King. Later Mr. 
King inherited a title and Ada became Mrs. King, Countess of Lovelace.

Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, worked with Babbage and the Ada software 
engineering language is named for her, but Ada is not her first name nor 
Augusta her middle; nor is Lovelace a surname, but a part of a title.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"We burst our pimples at you."
Monty Python & the Holy Grail