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“I never am really satisfied that I understand anything; because, understand it well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand about the many connections and relations which occur to me” (Moore, 1977). Ada Lovelace, better known as Augusta Ada Byron, once said those words referring to her constant hunger for knowledge.
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Isabelle, A.D., Valle, N.Z. (2016). Technology. In: Inspiring STEM Minds. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-352-0_4
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