Ada's Legacy: Cultures of Computing from the Victorian to the Digital Age
From the Preface 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...
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| Médium: | E-kniha |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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New York, NY, USA
Association for Computing Machinery and Morgan & Claypool
22.10.2015
Association for Computing Machinery |
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| Edice: | ACM Books |
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| ISBN: | 1970001496, 9781970001495, 9781970001488, 1970001488 |
| ISSN: | 2374-6777 |
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- Intro -- 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