Untangling the Tale of Ada Lovelace—Stephen Wolfram Blog
blog.stephenwolfram.com/2015/12/untangling-the-tale-of-ada-lovelace
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Saved with the link. Notes from 2007 to 2016 are mostly the page's own words, so this is probably an excerpt.
Ada Lovelace was born 200 years ago today. To some she is a great hero in the history of computing; to others an overestimated minor figure. I’ve been curious for a long time what the real story is. And in preparation for her bicentennial, I decided to try to solve what for me has always been the “mystery of Ada”.