Algorhythmics and Media Concepts: Ada Lovelace's Notes to "Sketch of the Analytical Engine".
Ada Lovelace's notes to Luigi Menabrea's "Sketch of the Analytical Engine" (1843) constitutes a significant development in the history of what John Guillory calls "the media concept." Standing in contrast to her mentor Charles Babbage, who saw mediation as that which is in between input and output,...
| Publicado en: | Victorian Studies Vol. 67; no. 3; pp. 467 - 481 |
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