What is it about?
A look at how Ada Lovelace, the real person, has been used in steampunk literature as one of the first women in technology.
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Why is it important?
Portrayals of the fictional Ada Lovelace from 1990 to the mid-2010s show the changing perspective on women in technology from disdainful to admiring.
Perspectives
I initially wrote this for a conference and was surprised to find such a disparate characterization between the novel that first mentioned her, The Difference Engine (1990) by Gibson and Sterling, in which she was helpless, addicted to drugs and gambling, generally a mess, and the later books of 2011-15, where she was cool, smart, tough, and admired.
Ms Victoria Ludas Orlofsky
Stevens Institute of Technology
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This page is a summary of: "A Different Sort of Bird", December 2015, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery),
DOI: 10.1145/2809523.2809534.
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