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<p class="MsoNormal">Oops, sorry, I just saw Paul Ceruzzi’s reference to Betty Alexandra’s work on Ada Lovelace, and Aristotle Tympas’ to Brittain on Edith Clarke, so there are a few. My own favorite biography of Lovelace is in video form: “To Dream Tomorrow.”
It’s very good indeed, and goes into detail about some of the issues that have held up women the world over – bad health, especially as related to childbirth, little if any financial control, etc. A nice description of the video is to be found at:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">https://computerhistory.org/events/dream-tomorrow/<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">My female students have especially appreciated this movie as it reveals both the challenges to women and the persistence of one very talented woman. I have shown it in a humanities course just after teaching Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s “Emile,”
which argues that girls’ education is to be very different from boys’, preparing them for the household rather than the strain of mental activity; and Mary Wollstonecraft’s later “A Vindication of the Rights of Women,” in which she argues that it is precisely
the education of women to be obedient, emotional, and unable to use their minds that makes them less capable citizens. (Her argument for better female education is in part that this will make them better wives! – I guess she knew her audience…) Ada Lovelace’s
mother, Lady Annabella Byron, was a follower of Wollstonecraft and educated her daughter fiercely for the life of the mind; Ada’s childhood illness and a strong inclination to math and invention led her into such 19<sup>th</sup>-century intellectual circles
as that of Michael Faraday; somewhere in those circles she also met Babbage. If I have time I have even had my students declaim a poem or two by Ada’s father, the Romantic cult figure Lord Byron (“mad, bad, and dangerous to know”)! Not that she ever really
knew her father… <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The story of Ada and female education also dovetails nicely with a class meeting on Faraday and the Royal Institution – I have them read some of his Christmas Lectures for that. Usually the ones on gravity and electro-magnetism. He must
have been an excellent speaker – the simplicity and clarity of those lectures amazes and delights my students.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">University of Nevada, Reno<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Members <members-bounces@lists.sigcis.org> on behalf of Jeffrey Mathias <jm2499@cornell.edu><br>
<b>Date: </b>Friday, September 4, 2020 at 10:49 AM<br>
<b>To: </b>"Ceruzzi, Paul" <CeruzziP@si.edu><br>
<b>Cc: </b>members <members@sigcis.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [SIGCIS-Members] Request for biographies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Not to throw yet another title at an already overflowing list but Tara Abraham's biography of Warren McCulloch "Rebel Genius" is quite excellent and well worth a read. Also, Helene Mialet's "Hawking Incorporated" can be read really usefully
as a new method for doing biography.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Fri, Sep 4, 2020 at 1:25 PM Ceruzzi, Paul <<a href="mailto:CeruzziP@si.edu">CeruzziP@si.edu</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Sorry if this response is too much. There are a lot of biographies about computer pioneers, but less so "computer scientists." I've left off autobiographies & memoirs but can supply a list if
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Alan Turing: The enigma: the extraordinary story of the brilliant scientist… </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">From:</span></b><span style="color:black"> Members <<a href="mailto:members-bounces@lists.sigcis.org" target="_blank">members-bounces@lists.sigcis.org</a>> on behalf of Troy Astarte <<a href="mailto:Troy.Astarte@newcastle.ac.uk" target="_blank">Troy.Astarte@newcastle.ac.uk</a>><br>
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<b>To:</b> members <<a href="mailto:members@sigcis.org" target="_blank">members@sigcis.org</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [SIGCIS-Members] Request for biographies</span> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Very many thanks to everyone who has sent suggestions, I’ve got a great reading list! I’ve already had a look at a few of them, and there’s some high quality work indeed. The only further question I would have is whether there are biographies
with a higher technical content? Perhaps that just isn’t common in biographies? <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">What is your favourite biography of a scientist or mathematician? I’m particularly interested in modern subjects and those who worked in computing/computer science. Ideally the book would cover the subject’s work in a reasonable level of
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<p class="MsoNormal">I ask because I am considering applying for funding for an essentially biographical project on a computer scientist and I would like to read some (more) biographies first. <o:p></o:p></p>
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Best, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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