Victorian Hacker: How Ada Lovelace Programmed the Future and Gambled Away Her Life (The Beautiful, Broken Mind of the World's First Programmer)

History remembers augusta ada lovelace as the prim, aristocratic pioneer of the digital age—the "e;enchantress of number"e; who wrote the world's first computer program a full century before the invention of the microchip. But the true story of ada lovelace is far darker, far more dangerous, and infinitely more fascinating.The victorian hacker tears away the sanitized veneer of nineteenth-century ...