Re: Ada Photograph

[dirk@gemini.cs.kuleuven.ac.be (Dirk Craeynest)]

Jeff Susanj <jeffrey.l.susanj@boeing.com> wrote:
> Back when I was learning Ada 83 I saw a book with an actual photograph
> of Ada.  She didn't look nearly as good as the drawing on the cover of
> the book by J.G.P Barnes.  [...]  Does anyone know what book it was in
> or where else it might be available (maybe the web)?

Check out
  The Ada Picture Gallery
  http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/pictures.html
on the Ada-Belgium web-server.

You may be looking for the third picture in the "Ada, Countess of
Lovelace" section there.  As mentioned on that page, this is probably
the original portrait of Ada that was hanging at the offices of John
Murray, the London publishing company, and was used to produce the
artwork on John Barnes' book "Programming in Ada", 2nd edition.

A (bad) scan of the portrait is available as a link from the above-
mentioned Ada Picture Gallery, or directly as
  http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/.image/ada2.gif

Hope this helps.

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

PS: By the way, if anyone has other Ada-related pictures that you would
like to see included on this page, feel free to contact me.

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