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Conceiving Ada
First aired on Feb 19, 1999
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Genres: Science Fiction, Drama, Fantasy

Emmy Coer, a computer genius, devises a method of communicating with the past by tapping into undying information waves. She manages to reach the world of Ada Lovelace, founder of the idea of a computer language and proponent of the possibilities of the "difference engine." Ada's ideas were stifled and unfulfilled because of the reality of life as a woman in the nineteenth century. Emmy has a plan to defeat death and the past using her own DNA as a communicative agent to the past, bringing Ada to the present. But what are the possible ramifications?

Featured Cast: click image to view more
Tilda Swinton | Ada Augusta Byron King, Countess of Lovelace
Francesca Faridany | Emmy Coer
Timothy Leary | Sims
Karen Black | Lady Byron / Mother Coer
John Perry Barlow | John Crosse
John O'Keefe | Charles Babbage
Featured Crew
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Lynn Hershman-Leeson | Producer
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Lynn Hershman-Leeson | Director
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Henry S. Rosenthal | Producer
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Bill Zarchy | Director of Photography
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Robert Dalva | Editor
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Lynn Hershman-Leeson | Writer