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Subject: Lovelace Encryption Seminar
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Date: Sat, 21-Apr-84 20:00:00 EST
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Posted: Sat Apr 21 20:00:00 1984
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With regard to coded messages, I think natural stupidity has replaced
artificial intelligence in this regard. Fortunately, I have a
program to deal with walter's kind. So nobody has to run their
programs, here's an aproximate translation:

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The first computer programmer was a nineteenth century noblewoman,
Lad Augusta Ada Bron Lovelace, daughter of the poet Lord Bron.
As a teenager, Augusta displaed astonishing prowess in mathematics.
When she was eighteen augusta first saw Charles Babbage's analtical
engine, a calculating machine that was the forerunner of the modern
computer. In eighteen fortytwo, she translated a paper on the
engine from French to Knglish adding her own voluminous notes. In
subse:uent writings she described the "loop" and "subroutine"
concepts a centur before their implementation in electronic
digital computers .but as far as I know, however, she never did
anthing with encrption/. Lad Lovelace and Babbage had a long
and close friendship and she was a dedicated partner in his work
with the analtical engine. Unfortunatel she was held back b
antiyfeminist attitudes and b her own obsession with gambling on
horse races. Lad Lovelace died of cancer at age thirtysix. Now
that ouve decoded this message, let's all get back to work.
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Please, Walter, next time you want to get the message out:
#@(& $%& $#(& (^$% ^&(#$&%! (& %($( (* ^&*(*% &%& @&&#&& $#&$&%!
                                        Fred

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