Subject: Re: [HM] Mathematics as Theater
From: James A Landau (JJJRLandau@aol.com)
Date: Mon Jun 26 2000 - 21:43:02 EDT
The Wall Street Journal for Modnay, June 26, 2000, page A-16, in an article
entitled "Queen of the C's" about an actress named Karen Black, says
<quote>
Lynn Hershmann-Leeson, the director of the 1997 movie "Conceiving Ada," says
Ms. Black paid her own way to San Francisco to play two roles in her fantasy
movie about Ada Lovelace, the 18th-cnetury inventor of a computer language.
</quote>
Is anyone familiar with this movie?
John Lippman, who wrote the article, made an odd mistake in the above quote.
Ada, Coutness of Lovelace, is usually credited with having been the first
practicioner of computer programming. A computer language was named after
her circa 1980.
James A Landau
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