1. Introduction / Robin Hammerman, Andrew L. Russell -- Part I. Ada's legacy in computing -- 2. Charles Babbage, Ada Lovelace, and the Bernoulli Numbers / Thomas J. Misa -- 2.1 Babbage and Lovelace -- 2.2 Steps to the sketch -- 3. Sketch of the analytical engine invented by Charles Babbage, Esq. / L.F. Menabrea ; translated by Augusta Ada Lovelace, with notes by the translator -- 4. Ada: past, present, future / Jean Ichbiah -- 4.1 References -- 5. The Ada programming language / Jean E. Sammet, Thomas J. (Tim) Bergin -- 6. The rise, fall, and persistence of Ada / Ricky E. Sward -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 The history of Ada -- 6.3 The persistence of Ada -- 6.4 Ada organizations -- 6.5 Ada projects -- 6.6 Conclusions -- 6.7 References -- Part II. Ada's legacy in literature -- 7. "I shall in due time be a poet": Ada Lovelace's poetical science in its literary context / Imogen Forbes-Macphail -- 7.1 Literary ambitions -- 7.2 Poetical science -- 7.3 Mechanical composition -- 7.4 Conclusion -- 8 "A different sort of bird" / Victoria Ludas Orlofsky -- 8.1 Introduction: Ada Lovelace in steampunk literature -- 8.2 Ada Lovelace day -- 8.3 Steampunk -- 8.4 Steampunk Ada -- 8.5 Conclusion -- 9. Ada bright and dark: steampunk representations of the enchantress of numbers / Catherine Siemann -- Part III. Ada's legacy in the digital age -- 10. Oracle: the engine weaves / Amy Cunningham -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Context and process -- 10.3 Extracts of Oracle -- 11. "Genderless" online discourse in the 1970s: muted group theory in early social computing / Jenny Ungbha Korn -- 11.1 A review of muted group theory and its applications -- 11.2 A review of gendered electronic communication -- 11.3 Applying muted group theory to gendered electronic communication -- 11.4 The muted role of women as PLATO experts -- 11.5 Genderlessness as muting of women by women -- 11.6 Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- 12. Rebooting the Ada Lovelace mythos / Valerie Aurora.
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