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<p class="MsoNormal">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></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I learned that Babbage wrote a couple of dozen programs between 1836-1840.
<b>That includes the one on Bernoulli, which Lovelace put into her appendices while translating Menabrea’s work in 1843.</b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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></o:p></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 "Ceruzzi, Paul" <CeruzziP@si.edu><br>
<b>Date: </b>Monday, March 14, 2022 at 9:50 AM<br>
<b>To: </b>"members@SIGCIS.org" <members@sigcis.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[SIGCIS-Members] Play about Ada and Babbage<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">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></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><a href="https://avantbard.org/project/ada-and-the-engine/">https://avantbard.org/project/ada-and-the-engine/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://avantbard.org/project/ada-and-the-engine/" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none"><span style="color:blue;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"><img border="0" width="240" height="186" style="width:2.5in;height:1.9375in" id="LPThumbnailImageId740380" alt="Image removed by sender." data-outlook-trace="F:0|T:1" src="cid:~WRD0003.jpg"></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif"><a href="https://avantbard.org/project/ada-and-the-engine/" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:none">Ada and The Engine - Avant Bard Theatre</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#666666">From prolific playwright Lauren Gunderson, Ada and the Engine is a whimsical scientific history sure to delight audiences. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#A6A6A6">avantbard.org<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Paul Ceruzzi<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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