<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Related - an essential resource for this subject is Tom MIsa’s chapter, “Charles Babbage, Ada Lovelace, and the Bernoulli Numbers,” which is Chapter 2 in <a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/book/10.1145/2809523" class="">Ada’s Legacy: Cultures of Computing from the Victorian to the Digital Age</a> (ACM Books, 2015). </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If you are an ACM member, or if your library has an institutional subscription to ACM Books via the ACM Digital Library, you should be able to access Tom’s excellent chapter here: <a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2809523.2809527" class="">https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2809523.2809527</a>.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Andy</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 14, 2022, at 10:09 AM, Evan Koblentz <<a href="mailto:evank@njit.edu" class="">evank@njit.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta charset="UTF-8" class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lato-Regular; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">I never dived deeply into Babbage/Lovelace before teaching this semester. In preparing for the first classing meeting, back in January, I read a lot of primary sources about the protagonists.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">I learned that Babbage wrote a couple of dozen programs between 1836-1840.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class="">That includes the one on Bernoulli, which Lovelace put into her appendices while translating Menabrea’s work in 1843.</b><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">There is little doubt that Lovelace saw farther than Babbage in documenting that a computer could do more than just mathematics, but it makes me want to scream when I read things like the play’s homepage which states: “The programming: that was all Ada” – that is false.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-width: 1pt; border-top-color: rgb(181, 196, 223); padding: 3pt 0in 0in;" class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">From:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">Members <<a href="mailto:members-bounces@lists.sigcis.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class="">members-bounces@lists.sigcis.org</a>> on behalf of "Ceruzzi, Paul" <<a href="mailto:CeruzziP@si.edu" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class="">CeruzziP@si.edu</a>><br class=""><b class="">Date:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Monday, March 14, 2022 at 9:50 AM<br class=""><b class="">To:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>"<a href="mailto:members@SIGCIS.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class="">members@SIGCIS.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:members@sigcis.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class="">members@sigcis.org</a>><br class=""><b class="">Subject:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>[SIGCIS-Members] Play about Ada and Babbage<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">This message is a little late, and it may appeal only to those of you in the DC area, although I believe the play will be staged in other cities. I haven't seen it yet but plan to next week. A play about Ada Augusta and Charles Babbage:<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""><a href="https://avantbard.org/project/ada-and-the-engine/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class="">https://avantbard.org/project/ada-and-the-engine/</a><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div id="LPBorder_GTaHR0cHM6Ly9hdmFudGJhcmQub3JnL3Byb2plY3QvYWRhLWFuZC10aGUtZW5naW5lLw.." style="margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 12pt; min-width: 424px;" class=""><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="1" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width: 1050px; border: 1pt solid rgb(200, 200, 200);"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td valign="top" style="border: none; padding: 9pt 27pt 9pt 9pt;" class=""><div id="LPImageContainer740380" style="margin-right: 9pt; overflow: hidden;" class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="https://avantbard.org/project/ada-and-the-engine/" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="color: blue; border: 1pt solid windowtext; padding: 0in;" class=""><img border="0" width="240" height="186" id="LPThumbnailImageId740380" alt="Image removed by sender." data-outlook-trace="F:0|T:1" src="cid:~WRD0003.jpg" style="width: 2.5in; height: 1.9375in;" class=""></span></span></a><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div></td><td width="100%" valign="top" style="width: 695px; border: none; padding: 9pt 27pt 9pt 9pt;" class=""><div id="LPTitle740380" style="margin-right: 6pt; margin-bottom: 9pt;" class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: "Segoe UI Light", sans-serif;" class=""><a href="https://avantbard.org/project/ada-and-the-engine/" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="text-decoration: none;" class="">Ada and The Engine - Avant Bard Theatre</span></a><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div id="LPDescription740380" style="margin-right: 6pt; margin-bottom: 9pt; max-height: 100px; overflow: hidden;" class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);" class="">From prolific playwright Lauren Gunderson, Ada and the Engine is a whimsical scientific history sure to delight audiences. <o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div id="LPMetadata740380" class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; color: rgb(166, 166, 166);" class=""><a href="http://avantbard.org/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class="">avantbard.org</a><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; 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