[SIGCIS-Members] Clinton's Ada

[Ceruzzi, Paul]

Here’s the link:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/11/09/clintons-data-driven-campaign-relied-heavily-on-an-algorithm-named-ada-what-didnt-she-see/#comments

You don’t hear much about the Ada programming language, but I believe a lot of avionics computers are programmed in Ada.

Paul Ceruzzi
ceruzzip at si.edu<mailto:ceruzzip at si.edu>
202-633-2414

From: Members [mailto:members-bounces at lists.sigcis.org] On Behalf Of JD Fleming
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The Washington Post has reported that Hillary Clinton's pre-election confidence was in part based on her campaign's use of a bespoke psephological algorithm, named after Ada Lovelace. Perhaps, as an episode in the history of information, this one writes itself. Nonetheless, I bet there are people on this list who have some interesting things to say about it, and if so, I for one would certainly like to hear.

JD Fleming

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James Dougal Fleming
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Burnaby -- British Columbia -- Canada.

Incipiamus.









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