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With a few clanks, ‘Ada and the Engine’ offers an eye-opening ride through computer history

Por: The Boston Globe Life September 26, 2022

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CAMBRIDGE — Not just central to our lives, computers today threaten to become our lives, with desktops, laptops, smartphones, and tablets constantly beckoning to us and virtually consuming our every waking hour.Ada Lovelace, too, was consumed by computers. Or, rather, by the dream of computing, which she helped to make a reality.A 19th-century British mathematician (and the daughter of Lord Byron) who has been credited as the first computer... + full article



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