From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: ** X-Spam-Status: No, score=2.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,FREEMAIL_FROM, FROM_STARTS_WITH_NUMS,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,38feb208d3011ce7,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Bob Mathis <73313.2671@COMPUSERVE.COM> Subject: Re: Ada Lovelace Date: 1996/10/24 Message-ID: <961024102255_73313.2671_FHM45-8@CompuServe.COM>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 191767475 sender: Ada programming language comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-10-24T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: There have been a number of books published about Augusta Ada Lovelace, including: "Ada, Countess of Lovelace: Byron's Legitimate Daughter," by Doris Langley Moore (Harper & Row, New York, 1977). "Ada: A Life and a Legacy," by Dorothy Stein (MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1987). "Ada, The Enchantress of Numbers," by Betty Alexandra Toole (Strawberry Press, Mill Valley, California, 1992). She is also included in the Babbage exhibit at the Science Museum in London. (Charles Babbage was Lucasian professor at Cambridge for ten years beginning in 1828. During that time, he never delivered a lecture at the university. An interesting example for others to think about.) "Charles Babbage: On the Principle and Development of the Calculator," by Philip Morrison and Emily Morrison (Dover, New York, 1961). John Barnes took part in unveiling a plaque on the house where she lived in London. There was even a science fiction story (I think entitled the Difference Engine, published around 1990) based on the presumption that Babbage's computer had worked and that the computer age had arrived a century earlier. (Powered by steam instead of electricity.) There have been many plays, stories, and articles about Ada's relationship (or lack there of) with her father. There are probably additional references in the history and bibliographic files on http://www.adahome.com and http://sw-eng.falls-church.va.us. -- Bob Mathis