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1 posted on 10/15/2013 3:08:58 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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OH! That Lovelace, I had to slow down and reread the title. I just knew it couldn’t be the other one.


2 posted on 10/15/2013 3:12:40 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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Lovelace? Rings a bell, but I don’t think it had anything to do with computers...of course; the memory isn’t what it used to be...


4 posted on 10/15/2013 3:19:31 PM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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Good ol Ada.

Language of languages.


7 posted on 10/15/2013 3:23:14 PM PDT by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com/2013/10/04/nicolae-hussein-obama/)
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Good post.
Over the years, I've worked with six really good female code jockeys who immediately come to mind. All were left-handed.
8 posted on 10/15/2013 3:23:15 PM PDT by ComputerGuy (HM2/USN M/3/3 Marines RVN 66-67)
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Bttt.


13 posted on 10/15/2013 3:37:19 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono (NRA)
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Ada, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Michael Dell and me thank you...


21 posted on 10/15/2013 4:22:37 PM PDT by ExCTCitizen (Ben Carson/Rand Paul or Sara/Nikki in 2016)
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She is one of the key figures in the founding of computer science because she really had a grasp of what computers could do, long before they were even built

Gender issues aside, a classmate once questioned why Boolean Algebra, used to optimize logic gates, was invented long before the existence of electronics or digital computers; my answer was that it served as a philosophical tool to systematize the finding of truth. It creates truth tables where contradictory statements are eliminated as false.
Kind of like the old lawyers' question: "Are you lying now or were you lying then?"

22 posted on 10/15/2013 4:30:04 PM PDT by stormhill (Guns Save Lives!)
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She was actually Ada Byron, Countess of Lovelace. Just like he was George Gordon, Lord Byron.


24 posted on 10/15/2013 5:00:51 PM PDT by IronJack (=)
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A Fine book. Alternate history, Babbage's machine works and revolutionizes Victorian Britain. A key work in steampunk literature. Ada is a character (though minor, and more of a mcguffin).

25 posted on 10/15/2013 5:10:53 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (21st century. I'm not a fan.)
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I bet she could create a working website for $90 million


28 posted on 10/15/2013 5:41:38 PM PDT by AppyPappy (Obama: What did I not know and when did I not know it?)
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