Ada Lovelace
Idea Makers: Personal Perspectives on the Lives & Ideas of Some Notable People Stephen Wolfram Wolfram Media, Inc. (July 2017) An intellectual feast to which you are cordially invited Most of these personal perspectives are provided in the form of…
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Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World Hardcover Rachel Ignotofsky Ten Speed Press (2016) Standing atop the shoulders of so many “giants” I read this book in combination with Catherine Thimmesh’s Girls Think of Everything, regretting that…
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This Long Pursuit: Reflections of a Romantic Biographer Richard Holmes Pantheon/An imprint of Penguin Random House (March 2017) “When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.” Erasmus The observation…
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Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science-and the World Rachel Swaby B/D/W/Y: Broadway Books (2015) “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” Helen Keller Do you already know that, during the last 100 years or so, many of the most…
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In this brief video for bigthink.com biographer Walter Isaacson compares Alan Turing’s computing philosophy with that of Ada Lovelace a hundred years prior. Turing, the subject of the new film The Imitation Game, is also featured prominently in Isaacson’s new…
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I have just read and will soon review Walter Isaacson‘s latest book, The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution. In my opinion, it is his most valuable book, thus far. In the final…
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Jean Jennings (left) and Frances Bilas set up the ENIAC in 1946. Bilas is arranging the program settings on the Master Programmer, photo courtesy of University of Pennsylvania. * * * Here is a brief excerpt from an article by…
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Walter Isaacson on creativity and imagination
As you may already know, Walter Isaacson has written about Leonardo da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin, Ada Lovelace, Steve Jobs, and Albert Einstein. “All were very smart. But that’s not what made them special. Smart people are a dime a dozen…
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