Robin Hammerman is Teaching Assistant Professor in
the College of Arts and Letters at Stevens Institute of Technology.
Her research and teaching interest in Ada Lovelace began during the
first years of her service to the Byron Society of America as
Director of Membership and Academic Services as well as when she
began teaching courses to engineering students at Stevens such as
Science Fiction and Literature, Science and Technology. Hammerman's
ongoing commitment to promote interdisciplinary engagement among
women in STEM fields inspired her to organize the first
international conference on the legacy of Ada Lovelace in October
2013.
Andrew L. Russell is Associate Professor of
History and Director of the Program in Science & Technology Studies
in the College of Arts & Letters at Stevens Institute of
Technology. He is the author of Open Standards and the Digital Age:
History, Ideology, and Networks (Cambridge University Press, 2014)
and has published over a dozen articles and book chapters on the
history of the Bell System, the American system of voluntary
standards, modular design, and the computer networks such as
Cyclades and the Internet. Russell currently serves as the Chair of
SIGCIS, an international collective of historians of computing and
information.
"Ada's Legacy is an original and valuable contribution to the commemoration of the bicentennial (of her birth). In summary, the twelve chapters in the volume Ada's Legacy illustrate key aspects which span from science to technology, literature and includes collaboration, feminism, technical excellence, creativity, and controversy. The topics covered in the book are indeed a large variety, so it is possible that Ada's Legacy doesn't hold the interest of each reader uniformly from the beginning to the end, but each reader will find chapters that allow him/her to deepen aspects of the complex phenomenon of Ada." - Luigia Carlucci Aiello in Artificial Intelligence (Elsevier)
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