{"id":17341,"date":"2012-10-16T08:18:51","date_gmt":"2012-10-16T13:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=17341"},"modified":"2012-10-16T08:18:51","modified_gmt":"2012-10-16T13:18:51","slug":"sorting-out-the-real-ada-lovelace-from-the-legend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/10\/16\/sorting-out-the-real-ada-lovelace-from-the-legend\/","title":{"rendered":"Sorting out the real Ada Lovelace from the legend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At <em>The Register<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2012\/10\/16\/ada_lovelace_mary_fairfax_somerville\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dave Wilby<\/a> tries to get to the real contributions of Ada Lovelace:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ada Lovelace is a compellingly romantic figure, irresistible in today\u2019s age of equal geeky opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>The daughter of &#8220;mad, bad and dangerous to know&#8221; Lord Byron, her mathematics-loving mother Annabella Milibanke purportedly beat the poet out of her with relentless studies in science, maths and logic.<\/p>\n<p>A beauty enthralled by scientific progress, cut down in her prime after the publication of her most notable work, Lovelace is often easily romanticised and reimagined as a steam punk heroine spearheading female invention and scientific emancipation.<\/p>\n<p>Such claims are sure to be made again with Ada Lovelace Day today.<\/p>\n<p>This image is fanciful, though, and to the unfortunate detriment of her genuine contribution to British technology.<\/p>\n<p>So what are the facts? What did Ada Lovelace really achieve? Did she outshine her female contemporaries in the scientific field? And what debt do today\u2019s female scientists really owe her?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At The Register, Dave Wilby tries to get to the real contributions of Ada Lovelace: Ada Lovelace is a compellingly romantic figure, irresistible in today\u2019s age of equal geeky opportunities. The daughter of &#8220;mad, bad and dangerous to know&#8221; Lord Byron, her mathematics-loving mother Annabella Milibanke purportedly beat the poet out of her with relentless [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,16,15],"tags":[109,513,43],"class_list":["post-17341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-history","category-science","category-technology","tag-computers","tag-research","tag-women"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-4vH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17342,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17341\/revisions\/17342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}