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People know her name only because the media forced it down our throats since she is a woman.

An interview with a co-inventor of the ENIAC http://www.computerworld.com/article/2561813/computer-hardwa...

Also sir, I would not "seek to minimize" anyone's work for who am I do anything of the sort. What I detest however, is the use of untrue things in order to push a narrative and this is a classic example of it. We are so wrapped up in conforming with the current political-correct thought-process that we are unable to perform critical reasoning of our own. Any thought process contrary to what is politically acceptable is now regarded as bigotry. Science is about cold-hard facts and not about what makes a person feel good.

Ahh yes please do go through my posts about how brains of women and men are not the same... might churn your stomach a bit. :)

Again some logic please... the man who created the machines would not know how to run them?

Since you love to quote wikipedia you could have scrolled down a little on the same page and seeen this -

Allan G. Bromley, in the 1990 essay Difference and Analytical Engines, wrote,[71]

    All but one of the programs cited in her notes had been prepared by Babbage from three to seven years earlier. The exception was prepared by Babbage for her, although she did detect a 'bug' in it. Not only is there no evidence that Ada ever prepared a program for the Analytical Engine, but her correspondence with Babbage shows that she did not have the knowledge to do so.

Blue plaque to Lovelace in St. James's Square, London

In his PhD thesis, Bruce Collier, who went on to write a biography of Babbage, claimed:

    It would be only a slight exaggeration to say that Babbage wrote the 'Notes' to Menabrea's paper, but for reasons of his own encouraged the illusion in the minds of Ada and the public that they were authored by her. It is no exaggeration to say that she was a manic depressive with the most amazing delusions about her own talents, and a rather shallow understanding of both Charles Babbage and the Analytical Engine

There is a google talk about Babbage's machines and the speaker also talked about Ada at the 36 min mark -- https://youtu.be/7K5p_tBcrd0?t=2190

Further links for your blithe mind to peruse - https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2012/12/26/christmas-trilogy-20...

http://www.salon.com/1999/03/16/feature_217/

http://www.juliansanchez.com/2012/10/16/much-ada-about-nothi...

I do not understand how people are not able to use the most basic reasoning.. or maybe it is me who is in grave error... since Charles Babbage invented the machines would he not know how to code them and run his own machines? The absurdity of this is astounding. Simply put, Charles Babbage was the first coder.

Just stating another thing worth mentioning.. that is all :)

Also worth mentioning is that feminists said Mileva Maric, his wife was the real credit behind his work and PBS even aired a documentary (which just shows how even documentaries are biased), until the back-lash from the scientific community dismantled this fantasized myth.

>> myth is that the differences are innate or "biological"

erm...please read

1. Genomic differences between developing male and female brains in the womb-- http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/02/150203190223.ht...

and if you still feel that somehow humans try to gender stereotype whilst the fetus are still in the wombs, then read this also-

2.Sex differences in rhesus monkey toy preferences parallel those of children-- http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2583786/

http://www.northwestern.edu/newscenter/stories/2015/08/scien... Is this also stereotypical? Read what the researcher(a woman by the way)had to say. For 20 years, she actively avoided studying sex differences in the brain until her own data showed her that differences between females and males were real. Let science be about cold-hard facts and let it not be muddied by "feelings".

Babbage created the machine and he would not know how to run it? He would not know how to program it? The absurdity of this is astounding. Babbage was the first programmer. There is a google talk about Babbage's machines and the speaker also talked about Ada at the 36 min mark -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7K5p_tBcrd0&feature=youtu.be...

I remembered reading an article regarding this over-hype - https://web.archive.org/web/20060813072159/http://archive.sa...

Also this video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7K5p_tBcrd0&feature=youtu.be... jumping to minute 36 where Ada is discussed by the speaker.

You bash him because he had the audacity to wonder and have an opinion about how gender could have related to the publicity and valuations.. considering how we are constantly bombarded by p.c click-bait articles on female founders and such stuff, it does not seem so silly after all. Then you use the gender card to have us give her the benefit of the doubt just because she is a woman... well played :)

Also before the picture lies this statement - Here's an amazing picture of her next to the code she and her colleagues wrote for the Apollo 11 guidance computer that made the moon landing possible:

and what if the genders had been reversed? justice :/

:)

I see. Thank-You. Hopefully the actual person reads this though :)

Excellent article. Helped me to clearly understand tty. Thank-You :)

Awesome work! Your dedication will surely inspire others to learn old tech and understand how tech evolved. Can local museums help you in this regard? How about Project Gutenberg or even Google?

let me ask you this simple question, whether you take it in context or not is upto you :) ... do you really think and know I might add, that there are no differences between men and women? especially in their brains??

well said.. unless people start taking a stand against this, we will have intelligence dragged down and innovation and pioneering taken hostage.. as we have already in cases like that of Sir Tim Hunt etc

might I add men and women are not equal in other capacities as well .. despite popular narrative and political correctness..

only way to deal with such stupidity is to ignore it and at the right moments crush it.... intelligence cannot win against stupidity.... it is like a clump of clay dashed against an adamantine wall...

yes indeed... this system of down-voting by HN is certainly not being used as content-control but more as a form of censor-ship and political-correctness(especially when it comes to 'women')....

I see "triggered" people down-voting ... lel

this seems very HN worthy ... let's turn this place into shit also -_- ... also im going to leave this here for all those "concerned" people ... http://ideas.time.com/2013/02/06/do-teachers-really-discrimi...