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.

Table of Contents: Introduction / Part 1: Ada's Legacy in Computing / Charles Babbage, Ada Lovelace, and the Bernoulli Numbers / Sketch of the Analytical Engine invented by Charles Babbage, Esq. / Ada: Past, Present, Future / The Ada Programming Language / The Rise, Fall, and Persistence of Ada / Part 2: Ada's Legacy in Literature / "I shall in due time be a poet": Ada Lovelace's Poetical Science in its Literary Context / "A Different Sort of Bird": Ada Lovelace in History and Steampunk / Ada Bright and Dark: Steampunk Representations of the Enchantress of Numbers / Part 3: Ada's Legacy in the Digital Age / Oracle: The Engine Weaves / "Genderless" Online Discourse in the 1970s: Muted Group Theory in Early Social Computing / Rebooting the Ada Lovelace Mythos