> someone who wrote a paper almost 200 years ago She didn't just write a paper. Her place in history is at least as well earned - I personally think moreso -

> someone who wrote a paper almost 200 years ago She didn't just write a paper. Her place in history is at least as well earned - I personally think moreso - as Babbage's. "When Ada wrote about Babbage’s machine, she wanted to explain what it did in the clearest way—and to do this she looked at the machine more abstractly, with the result that she ended up exploring and articulating something quite recognizable as the modern notion of universal computation." She did so 100 years before Turing. http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2015/12/untangling-the-tale-of-ada-lovelace/ http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2015/12/untangling-the-tale-o...