Comments on: TechTV | Ada Lovelace, Countess of Controversy http://www.intelliot.com/blog/archives/2004/05/31/techtv-ada-lovelace-countess-of-controversy/ Thoughts, opinions and fascinating discoveries by Elliot, a student at USC Fri, 21 Nov 2008 20:23:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: oliver http://www.intelliot.com/blog/archives/2004/05/31/techtv-ada-lovelace-countess-of-controversy/#comment-7734 oliver Thu, 21 Apr 2005 15:44:49 +0000 http://www.intelliot.com/blog/archives/2004/05/31/techtv-ada-lovelace-countess-of-controversy/#comment-7734 why some other computer vendor or illetrate are going against the claim of charle's babbage, for the name they usually called him i.e "further of computer" reply pls, i need highlight on this topic and pls give me your Tel: Number so that i can be calling. thanks from one of student in nigeria why some other computer vendor or illetrate are going against the claim of charle’s babbage, for the name they usually called him i.e “further of computer”
reply pls, i need highlight on this topic

and pls give me your Tel: Number so that i can be calling.
thanks from one of student in nigeria

]]> By: Benjamin Woolley http://www.intelliot.com/blog/archives/2004/05/31/techtv-ada-lovelace-countess-of-controversy/#comment-2499 Benjamin Woolley Tue, 15 Mar 2005 23:40:25 +0000 http://www.intelliot.com/blog/archives/2004/05/31/techtv-ada-lovelace-countess-of-controversy/#comment-2499 I came across this article by accident while doing some follow-up work on Ada Lovelace. Please allow me to point out even at this late stage that Holt's New Yorker article may have used but did not represent my book on Ada, and I would certainly not use phrases such as “hysteria-prone and often opium-addled” or “lusty coquette” to describe her. On the perennial and, in my view, fruitless argument over Ada's mathematical expertise, I don't believe it is possible to come to a definitive conclusion. Holt manhandles the evidence in one direction, and so, I believe, does Toole in the opposite. The point I tried to make in the book was that the 'invention' of programming was not a mathematical breakthrough, but a conceptual one. Ceruzzi puts it very well in the quote you attribute to him. As for the reference to Lisa Marie Presley, you have simply misunderstood the context. It wasn't my assessment of Ada, but of Babbage's initial motivation for encouraging Ada to write the memoir. If it is 'hogwash', which I obviously would contest, it is not for the reasons stated by Betty Toole. Sincerely, Benjamin Woolley PS How did TechTV try to get in touch? I don't remember receiving any sort of communication. I came across this article by accident while doing some follow-up work on Ada Lovelace. Please allow me to point out even at this late stage that Holt’s New Yorker article may have used but did not represent my book on Ada, and I would certainly not use phrases such as “hysteria-prone and often opium-addled” or “lusty coquette” to describe her.

On the perennial and, in my view, fruitless argument over Ada’s mathematical expertise, I don’t believe it is possible to come to a definitive conclusion. Holt manhandles the evidence in one direction, and so, I believe, does Toole in the opposite. The point I tried to make in the book was that the ‘invention’ of programming was not a mathematical breakthrough, but a conceptual one. Ceruzzi puts it very well in the quote you attribute to him.

As for the reference to Lisa Marie Presley, you have simply misunderstood the context. It wasn’t my assessment of Ada, but of Babbage’s initial motivation for encouraging Ada to write the memoir. If it is ‘hogwash’, which I obviously would contest, it is not for the reasons stated by Betty Toole.

Sincerely,

Benjamin Woolley

PS How did TechTV try to get in touch? I don’t remember receiving any sort of communication.

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