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=-0.5 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,3ac8f71f0281d224 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-01-22 13:33:33 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!logbridge.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!wn13feed!wn11feed!worldnet.att.net!204.127.198.203!attbi_feed3!attbi.com!sccrnsc01.POSTED!not-for-mail From: tmoran@acm.org Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada movie, was Computer History Museum, UPCOMING EVENTS References: <3E2EF0A8.2090300@acm.org> X-Newsreader: Tom's custom newsreader Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.234.13.56 X-Complaints-To: abuse@attbi.com X-Trace: sccrnsc01 1043271211 12.234.13.56 (Wed, 22 Jan 2003 21:33:31 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 21:33:31 GMT Organization: AT&T Broadband Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 21:33:31 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:33355 Date: 2003-01-22T21:33:31+00:00 List-Id: >Who is this Ada Augusta Lovelace person I keep hearing about? Sorry, it should be Augusta Ada Lovelace > Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, worked with Babbage and the Ada software She seems to have signed a lot of her letters "A L", "A A L", "A A Lovelace", or "Augusta Ada Lovelace", and the movie explicitly mentioned that Menabrea was surprised to find that "AAL" was female.