How Lord Byron's Daughter Ada Lovelace Launched the Digital Age
by
James Essinger
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
“[Ada Lovelace], like Steve Jobs, stands at the intersection of arts and technology."—Walter Isaacson, author of The Innovators
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...