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"Many fields of science can point to a foundational document: Isaac Newton’s
Principia for the physics of classical mechanics or Charles Darwin’s
On the
Origin of Species for evolutionary biology. But only computer science can
claim its foundational document hides in the endnotes.
Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, better known as Ada Lovelace, was
commissioned in 1842 to translate a paper about the world’s first
general-purpose computer. She appended her own annotations, which ran three
times longer than the original article and completely eclipsed it in terms of
technical meat and philosophical insights. With impressive foresight, they
established her as the first person to envision the universal capabilities of
computers that we take for granted today."
Via Violet Blue’s
Cybersecurity Roundup: June 11, 2024
https://www.patreon.com/posts/cybersecurity-11-105987126
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