Interpreting dreams of abstract machines

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

Dec 17, 201537:08Technology

Bernard Sufrin, University of Oxford establishes a context of Ada's 'Translators Notes' using more recent descriptions of computing machinery and programming methods.

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