A poet's long-forgotten daughter created the first algorithm

2 hidelooktropic 3 8/13/2025, 9:24:56 PM adamgrant.micro.blog ↗

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pinewurst · 24m ago
She’s hardly long forgotten or forgotten at all.
hidelooktropic · 23m ago
She was long forgotten. Her notoriety is actually a recent phenomenon.
dc396 · 14m ago
Yep. She didn't reappear in history until the 1950s when Babbage's papers were reviewed with the increased development of computing as a field of study (and really took off in the 80s when US DOD sponsored the development of the Ada programming language).