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A poet's long-forgotten daughter created the first algorithm
- pinewurst 1y agoShe’s hardly long forgotten or forgotten at all.
- hidelooktropic 1y agoShe was long forgotten. Her notoriety is actually a recent phenomenon.
- dc396 1y agoYep. She didn't reappear in history until the 1950s when Babbage's papers were reviewed with the increased development of computing as a field of study (and really took off in the 80s when US DOD sponsored the development of the Ada programming language).