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Interpreting dreams of abstract machines

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Ada Lovelace Symposium - Celebrating 200 Years of a Computer Visionary
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Bernard Sufrin, University of Oxford establishes a context of Ada's 'Translators Notes' using more recent descriptions of computing machinery and programming methods.

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Ada Lovelace Symposium - Celebrating 200 Years of a Computer Visionary
People
Bernard Sufrin
Keywords
computing
Ada Lovelace
feminism
maths
Department: Department of Computer Science
Date Added: 17/12/2015
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