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Ada Lovelace lives forever: Ada’s four questions

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Ada Lovelace Symposium - Celebrating 200 Years of a Computer Visionary
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How Ada approached information is the key to understanding her contribution. In this talk Betty Toole, author of "ADA: The Enchantress of Numbers" focuses on Ada's four questions: What is the source? What does it mean? What if? and Why not?

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Ada Lovelace Symposium - Celebrating 200 Years of a Computer Visionary
People
Betty Toole
Keywords
computing
Ada Lovelace
feminism
maths
Department: Department of Computer Science
Date Added: 18/12/2015
Duration: 00:29:41

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