Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site bbncca.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!bbncca!rrizzo From: rrizzo@bbncca.ARPA (Ron Rizzo) Newsgroups: net.motss Subject: Re: Turing Biography and Discrimination Message-ID: <769@bbncca.ARPA> Date: Thu, 7-Jun-84 12:20:30 EDT Article-I.D.: bbncca.769 Posted: Thu Jun 7 12:20:30 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 8-Jun-84 01:36:01 EDT References: <3501@fortune.UUCP>, <300@cornell.UUCP> <7950@watmath.UUCP> Organization: Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Cambridge, Ma. Lines: 6 Oops! I goofed, mistaking Ada for Babbage's wife. My apologies. Perhaps sexism was in part responsible for my getting the facts wrong, but given the by-now common habit of looking at the contributions of famous person's spouses (heterosexuals, that is) among biographers etc. (among whom are more than a few avowed feminists), I don't think my slip was heinous or especially sexist.