Untangling the Tale of Ada Lovelace

Posted by timothy on Monday December 14, 2015 @01:07AM from the embroidered-or-not dept.

theodp writes: To commemorate the 200th birthday of Ada Lovelace, Google's CS Education in Media Program partnered with YouTube Kids on Happy Birthday Ada! for Computer Science Education Week. For those seeking (much!) more information on The Enchantress of Numbers, Stephen Wolfram has penned a pretty epic blog post, Untangling the Tale of Ada Lovelace. "Ada Lovelace was born 200 years ago today," Wolfram begins. "To some she is a great hero in the history of computing; to others an overestimated minor figure. I've been curious for a long time what the real story is. And in preparation for her bicentennial, I decided to try to solve what for me has always been the 'mystery of Ada'." If you're not up for the full 12,000+ word read, skip to "The Final Story" for the TL;DR summary.

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Re:Hero? by rossdee · 2015-12-14 02:16 · Score: 1, Offtopic

There used to be a Hero Parade in Auckland, NZ
It was to celebrate gays, lesbians and transgender
I don't think Ada Lovelace qualified for that, since she was Babbage's mistress, and presumably straight