For “Lovelace & Babbage” http://amzn.to/1MbRWCu @sydneypadua did remarkable original historical research, summarized in funny footnotes.
There's a school of Ada-ology that says she was a doofus and Babbage did all the work. @sydneypadua makes a good case that this is wrong.
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“Uniting link between operations of matter and abstract mental processes” suggests Ada's known mind/body materialist & atheist agenda.
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Philosophical materialism, much more than practical applications, was also the emotional driving force for AI in the 20th century.
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