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Computer science: Enchantress of abstraction

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Richard Holmes re-examines the legacy of Ada Lovelace, mathematician and computer pioneer.

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  1. Richard Holmes is the author of The Age of Wonder, which won the 2009 Royal Society Prize for Science Books, and Falling Upwards.,

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