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. JD Fleming -- J ames Dougal Fleming Associate Professor Department of English Simon Fraser University 778-782-4713 Burnaby -- British Columbia -- Canada. Incipiamus.
Here’s the link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/11/09/clintons-dat... You don’t hear much about the Ada programming language, but I believe a lot of avionics computers are programmed in Ada. Paul Ceruzzi ceruzzip@si.edu<mailto:ceruzzip@si.edu> 202-633-2414 From: Members [mailto:members-bounces@lists.sigcis.org] On Behalf Of JD Fleming Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2016 10:58 AM To: members@lists.sigcis.org Subject: [SIGCIS-Members] Clinton's Ada 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. JD Fleming -- James Dougal Fleming Associate Professor Department of English Simon Fraser University 778-782-4713 Burnaby -- British Columbia -- Canada. Incipiamus.
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