<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default"><font size="2">Hello all,</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><div class="gmail_default"><font size="2">In
case of interest, my own book "Artifacts: an Archaeologist's Year in
Silicon Valley" (MIT Press) marks its 25th anniversary this year. </font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font size="2">I include Ada Lovelace - I researched her papers at the Bodleian Library, Oxford in 2000. </font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font size="2">To mark the 25th I am
set to speak at the VCF Vintage Computer Festival at the Computer
History Museum in Silicon Valley this aummer. </font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font size="2">Please excuse this promo as an advance
reboot. </font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font size="2">Best wishes,</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font size="2">Christine </font></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 4 Feb 2026 at 20:00, Brian E Carpenter via Members <<a href="mailto:members@lists.sigcis.org">members@lists.sigcis.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Brian,<br>
<br>
That's a great list.<br>
<br>
About Ada, there was also:<br>
<br>
@book{Baum-bio,<br>
title = {{The Calculating Passion of Ada Byron}},<br>
author = {Baum, Joan},<br>
year = {1986},<br>
publisher = {{Archon Books}},<br>
place = {{Hamden, CT, USA}},<br>
isbn = {0-208-02119-1}<br>
}<br>
<br>
There's also quite a bit about Ada's collaboration with Babbage in Doris Langley Moore's "Ada, Countess of Lovelace", 1977, but nothing very technical.<br>
<br>
Regards/Ngā mihi<br>
Brian Carpenter<br>
<br>
On 05-Feb-26 06:38, Brian Randell via Members wrote:<br>
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> Hi Peter:<br>
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> Apologies for the delayed reply.<br>
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> I don’t have an exact list of the books currently in our display. Instead, I have the list of books, with their (UK) prices, which were sought for the display initially, not all of which could in the event be obtained. A number of colleagues on SIGCIS helped us decide what to include in this list - and what to exclude!<br>
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> *From: *PETER ECKSTEIN <<a href="mailto:petereckstein@comcast.net" target="_blank">petereckstein@comcast.net</a>><br>
> *Date: *Wednesday, 21 January 2026 at 16:02<br>
> *To: *Brian Randell <<a href="mailto:brian.randell@newcastle.ac.uk" target="_blank">brian.randell@newcastle.ac.uk</a>><br>
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> Brian,<br>
> Some books I didn't recognize. Could you send us all a listing of the titles, etc.?<br>
> Peter Eckstein<br>
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> On 01/20/2026 3:46 PM EST Brian Randell via Members <<a href="mailto:members@lists.sigcis.org" target="_blank">members@lists.sigcis.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Last weekend I took a mixed party of about twenty visitors around the School of Computing at Newcastle University, mainly to see our historical computing display (some ten display cabinets). But I also showed them our display (see attached photo) of books “Women in Computing” - it was the one display that the visitors actually applauded! (It is sponsored by Sage Computing, and we have arranged that additional copies of all the books on display are borrowable from the University Library.)<br>
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