Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace: two visions of computing

Ada Lovelace Symposium - Celebrating 200 Years of a Computer Visionary by Oxford University

Dec 17, 201544:49Technology

Doron Swade, Royal Holloway, University of London reviews the trajectory of Babbage's calculating Engines and examines Ada Lovelace's contribution to computing.

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