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

Ada's legacy: cultures of computing from the victorian to the digital age / Robin Hammerman, Andrew L. Russell.

Ada's Legacy illustrates the depth and diversity of writers, thinkers, and makers who have been inspired by Ada Lovelace, the English mathematician and writer. The volume, which commemorates the bicentennial of Ada's birth in December 1815, celebrates Lovelace's many achievements as w...

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Main Authors: Hammerman, Robin (Author), Russell, Andrew L., 1975- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: San Rafael : Morgan & Claypool Publishers 2015.
Series:ACM books ; #8.
Subjects:
Lovelace, Ada King, > Countess of, > 1815-1852 > Influence.
Lovelace, Ada King, > Countess of, > 1815-1852
Computer scientists > England > Biography.
Ada (Computer program language)
Steampunk culture.
Computer scientists
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Steampunk culture
England
Biographies
Biographies.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction / Robin Hammerman, Andrew L. Russell
  • pt. I. Ada's legacy in computing
  • 2. Charles Babbage, Ada Lovelace, and the Bernoulli Numbers / Thomas J. Misa
  • 2.1 Babbage and Lovelace
  • 2.2 Steps to the sketch
  • 3. Sketch of the analytical engine invented by Charles Babbage, Esq. / L.F. Menabrea ; translated by Augusta Ada Lovelace, with notes by the translator
  • 4. Ada: past, present, future / Jean Ichbiah
  • 4.1 References
  • 5. The Ada programming language / Jean E. Sammet, Thomas J. (Tim) Bergin
  • 6. The rise, fall, and persistence of Ada / Ricky E. Sward
  • 6.1 Introduction
  • 6.2 The history of Ada
  • 6.3 The persistence of Ada
  • 6.4 Ada organizations
  • 6.5 Ada projects
  • 6.6 Conclusions
  • 6.7 References
  • pt. II. Ada's legacy in literature
  • 7. "I shall in due time be a poet": Ada Lovelace's poetical science in its literary context / Imogen Forbes-Macphail
  • 7.1 Literary ambitions
  • 7.2 Poetical science
  • 7.3 Mechanical composition
  • 7.4 Conclusion
  • 8 "A different sort of bird" / Victoria Ludas Orlofsky
  • 8.1 Introduction: Ada Lovelace in steampunk literature
  • 8.2 Ada Lovelace day
  • 8.3 Steampunk
  • 8.4 Steampunk Ada
  • 8.5 Conclusion
  • 9. Ada bright and dark: steampunk representations of the enchantress of numbers / Catherine Siemann
  • pt. III. Ada's legacy in the digital age
  • 10. Oracle: the engine weaves / Amy Cunningham
  • 10.1 Introduction
  • 10.2 Context and process
  • 10.3 Extracts of Oracle
  • 11. "Genderless" online discourse in the 1970s: muted group theory in early social computing / Jenny Ungbha Korn
  • 11.1 A review of muted group theory and its applications
  • 11.2 A review of gendered electronic communication
  • 11.3 Applying muted group theory to gendered electronic communication
  • 11.4 The muted role of women as PLATO experts
  • 11.5 Genderlessness as muting of women by women
  • 11.6 Conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
  • 12. Rebooting the Ada Lovelace mythos / Valerie Aurora.

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