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...languages" that translate human wishes into some variation of the computer's two words. BASIC is the language of most desktop personal computers, originally written for Dartmouth students in the mid-1960s; FORTRAN is an earlier attempt used mainly for scientific problems; Logo is designed for children; and Ada is used mainly for military problems...
...Ada is named in honor of Lord Byron's science-minded daughter Ada, Countess of Lovelace, whose friend and collaborator Charles Babbage was the eccentric genius of the Analytical Engine. She also lives on in what is known as Lady Lovelace's Objection, which refers not to any romantic advances by Babbage but to the age-old question of whether a machine can be made to think. Objected Lady Lovelace: "The Analytical Engine has no pretensions to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform...
...DeVos founded the company, and they and their families own the whole thing. Forbes calculated in September that together the executives were worth $550 million, which put them well up on the magazine's list of the 400 richest Americans. Though Amway has its headquarters in tiny Ada, Mich., Van Andel and DeVos are widely known for their espousal of conservative political and economic ideas. Moreover, Van Andel served in 1979-80 as chairman of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. DeVos was the Republican National Committee's finance chief until he was fired in August by G.O.P. Chairman...
...hardly accidental that J.B.'s salvation was manifested in the return of his wife to "blow on the coal of the heart." MacLeish had been married since 1916 to Ada Hitchcock, his childhood sweetheart in Glencoe, Ill. (She survives him, as do two children, nine grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.) Ada also dominates MacLeish's last book of poems, The Wild Old Wicked Man (1968). "Ah, but a good wife!" he wrote. "To lie late in a warm bed/ (warm where she was), with your life/ suspended like a music in the head...
...requirement of the Ford Foundation headquarters, as Roche saw it, was to overcome the institutional confines of the modern office, with its angst-inducing anonymity. Roche's solution was to group the offices around an inner court, which Critic Ada Louise Huxtable has called "a horticultural spectacular and probably one of the most romantic environments ever devised by corporate man." Across this court, office workers are aware of one another. It inspires a sense of being a working family...