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From: dirk@galatea.cs.kuleuven.ac.be (Dirk Craeynest)
Subject: Film "Conceiving Ada" (was: Re: CONCEIVING ADA)
Date: 1998/02/24
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Summary: On TV yesterday 98/02/23
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[ I hope this won't be a duplicate posting.  I'm almost 100% sure
  my first posting failed; if it didn't, sorry... -- dc ]

In article <34eb2fd5.0@mailgate.hilti.com> "Herwig Habenbacher"
<habenb@hilti.com> writes:
[...]
>One of the most outstanding females in the technical history of
>computing is Ada, Countess of Lovelace. Lynn Hershman Leeson, in her
>new film Conceiving Ada, brings this Victorian role model into
>contemporary discussion, offering cyberfeminism a reconfigured look
>at Ada's personal life and ideas, taking the fe.male.data_set in new
>directions.
[...]
>See at:
>http://www.ix.de/tp/english/pop/topic_2/4102/1.html

This film was broadcast last evening on the ARTE channel in Europe
(well, Belgium at least).

I only saw the title announced in the TV schedules yesterday evening
and remembering Herwig's message taped the film for later viewing.

Did anyone here see it?  Opinions?  Were people of the "Ada community"
involved in some way with this project?

I understand this might be somewhat outside of the range of CLA topics.
However, it is to my knowledge the first time a film is featuring Ada,
and as central person even, so there is definitely some connection with
the newsgroup.

Who knows, it might help to give Ada-the-language some attention.

Dirk (Dirk.Craeynest@cs.kuleuven.ac.be for Ada-Belgium e-mail)

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