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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">You don’t hear much about the Ada programming language, but I believe a lot of avionics computers are programmed in Ada.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Paul Ceruzzi<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Members [mailto:members-bounces@lists.sigcis.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>JD Fleming<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, November 10, 2016 10:58 AM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> [SIGCIS-Members] Clinton's Ada<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;color:black">J</span><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">ames Dougal Fleming<br>
Associate Professor<br>
Department of English<br>
Simon Fraser University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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