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Ada's legacy cultures of computing from the Victorian to the digital age

By Andrew L. Russell , Robin Hammerman

Book information

Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery and Morgan & Claypool Publishers
Year
2016
ISBN
9781970001488, 1970001488, 9781970001518, 1970001518
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
34 MB (35568501 bytes)
Series
ACM books
Edition
1
Pages
\261
Time added
2023-01-04 22:44:52

Description

Contents Preface 1. Introduction I. ADA’S LEGACY IN COMPUTING 2. Charles Babbage, Ada Lovelace, and the Bernoulli Numbers 3. Sketch of the Analytical Engine invented by Charles Babbage, Esq. 4 Ada: Past, Present, Future 5. The Ada Programming Language 6. The Rise, Fall, and Persistence of Ada II. ADA’S LEGACY IN LITERATURE 7. “I shall in due time be a poet”: Ada Lovelace’s Poetical Science in Its Literary Context 8. “A Different Sort of Bird” 9. Ada Bright and Dark: Steampunk Representations of the Enchantress of Numbers III. ADA'S LEGACY IN THE DIGITAL AGE 10. Oracle: The Engine Weaves 11. “Gend1erless” Online Discourse in the 1970s: Muted Group Theory in Early Social Computing 12 .Rebooting the Ada Lovelace Mythos Index Contributor Biographies

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