Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace (or, Cabbage, Babbage and Lovelace YUM!)

[RandomAnthony]

Fascinating story about the history of math/computers on NPR this morning...

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/st...

I had no idea a "mother of computer programming" existed.

[Kevin]

any coincidence that the character in Rain Man(not raymond but the brother) was named Charlie Babbitt? like an homage to a mathematical genius?

[[deleted user]]

Very interesting article, thanks for sharing.

[[deleted user]]

I knew about Charles Babbage; his name is often listed as the godfather of sorts of the modern computer, even if his prototype is more than hundreds of years old.

[Matt]

Hey RA, you might like this...

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33...

[Félix]

Very interesting.

[[deleted user]]

Yup, that looks like it may be interesting.

[Sally, la reina]

I always read this title as "Cabbage and Baggage" and then get hungry.

[Matthieu]

I've always loved Byron's daughter.

[RandomAnthony]

tadpole wrote: "Hey RA, you might like this...

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33..."

You know, that might be the only Gibson I haven't read...I've glanced at it but never gone all the way, so to speak.

This was good, too...Matty, you'd like it in particular, I think....

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16...

[Félix]

Sally wrote: "I always read this title as "Cabbage and Baggage" and then get hungry."

lol