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Ada. / Emily Holyoake.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Holyoake, Emily, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lovelace, Ada King, Countess of, 1815-1852.
- Lovelace, Ada King, Countess of.
- Artificial intelligence.
- Drama.
- Women authors.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (54 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Distribution:
- London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2025.
- Place of Publication:
- Richmond : Aurora Metro Books, 2019.
- System Details:
- text file rdaft
- Summary:
- Play about Ada Lovelace, the first computer and Artificial Intelligence today. Suitable for schools, colleges and youth groups.Offers good roles for girls/women to perform relating to STEM subjects. "You may turn the handle, and I will whirr and calculate without error!" Decades before the first computers are built, Ada imagines machines that can do anything, even compose beautiful pieces of music. Far beyond Ada's future, a learning machine called Ginny breaks free of her routine and tests the boundaries of what ought to be possible.ADA is an intricate re-telling of the life and legacy of Ada Lovelace, pioneer of computing, paralleling her history with a contemporary story about the potential of artificial intelligence.
- ISBN:
- 1-917537-36-0
- 1-912430-10-X
- OCLC:
- 1202737688
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