Essinger, James
Summary: "The world's first computer programmer and daughter of Lord Byron finally gets credit for her research in this gossipy short biography. Over 150 years after her death, a widely-used scientific computer program was named "Ada," after Ada Lovelace, the only legitimate daughter of the eighteenth century's version of a rock star, Lord Byron. Why? Because, after computer pioneers such as Alan...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2014