The thrilling adventures of Lovelace and Babbage : with interesting & curious anecdotes of celebrated and distinguished characters : fully illustrating a variety of instructive and amusing scenes; as performed within and without the remarkable difference engine / Sydney Padau.
"In the late 1970s, a French computer scientist under contract to the United States Defense Department developed Ada, a programming language for military computer systems. Today the language is widely used in “safety critical” settings: in the military, in banks and nuclear power plants, in med...
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| Other title: | Lovelace and Babbage. Thrilling adventures of Lovelace and Babbage : the (mostly) true story of the first computer. Subtitle on cover: The (mostly) true story of the first computer. |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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[London] :
Particular Books,
2015.
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| Summary: | "In the late 1970s, a French computer scientist under contract to the United States Defense Department developed Ada, a programming language for military computer systems. Today the language is widely used in “safety critical” settings: in the military, in banks and nuclear power plants, in medical devices and air traffic control. Ada was named for the woman who has been called the world’s first computer programmer, Augusta Ada Byron King, Countess of Lovelace (1815-52), daughter of Lord Byron"--NYtimes.com. |
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| Item Description: | "Embellished with portraits and scientifick diagrams"Title page. |
| Physical Description: | 320 pages ; 24 x 16 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780141981512 (hbk.) 0141981512 (hbk.) |