Enchantress of Abstraction, Bride of Science: must Ada Lovelace be a superheroine?
Panel discussion to conclude the symposium with Muffy Calder, Valerie Barr, Suw Charman-Anderson, Murray Pittock and Cheryl Praeger. Chair:...
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Ada Lovelace Symposium - Celebrating 200 Years of a Computer Visionary
10 December 2015 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Ada Lovelace, chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage’s unbuilt mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine....
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18 episodesHumans, machines, and the future of work
Moshe Vardi, Rice University explores the question "If machines are capable of doing almost any work humans can do, what will humans do?".
Mathematics and culture: geometry and its ‘Figures in the Air’
Judith Grabiner, Pitzer College describes how the 19th century saw radical change, producing new ideas of space, destroying the unchallengin...
Imaginary engines
In this talk graphic artist and animator Sydney Padua talks about her bestselling graphic novel "The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Ba...
The Analytical Engine and the Aeolian Harp
In this talk Imogen Forbes-Macphail, University of California, Berkeley, contextualises Lovelace's work on the engines against the backdrop...
Enchantress of Numbers or a mere debugger?: a brief history of cultural and academic understandings of Ada Lovelace
To mark the 200th anniversary of Lovelace's birth, Elizabeth Bruton, Museum of the History of Science, reviews and explores academic and pop...
The mathematical correspondence of Ada Lovelace and Augustus De Morgan
During the years 1840-1, Ada Lovelace corresponded with the mathematician Augustus De Morgan. In this talk Christopher Hollings, University...
The early education of Ada Byron
In this talk Julia Markus, Hofstra University shall dispel the myth that Lady Byron kept Ada from poetry, she will also show that the mother...
Pythagoras to pacifism: mathematics and archives
In this talk June Barrow-Green from the Open University describes some mathematical archives and some of the issues associated with them. In...
Will you concede me Poetical Science?
Ada Lovelace had a broad interest in the science and technologies of the day and explored post-Romantic ideas which made a significant link...
Ada Lovelace lives forever: Ada’s four questions
How Ada approached information is the key to understanding her contribution. In this talk Betty Toole, author of "ADA: The Enchantress of Nu...
From Byron to the Ada Programming Language
John Barnes, Ada software consultant talks about Byron and his bear and the evolution of the computing language named after Ada Lovelace.
Turning numbers into notes
Composer Emily Howard talks to David De Roure about her musical composition 'Ada sketches'.
Ada Lovelace, a scientist in the archives
Ursula Martin, University of Oxford and Soren Riis, Queen Mary University of London give new focus to letters within the archive of Ada Love...
Notions and notations: designing computers before computing
Adrian Johnstone, Royal Holloway, University of London reviews Babbage's remarkable 'Mechanical Notation'.
Interpreting dreams of abstract machines
Bernard Sufrin, University of Oxford establishes a context of Ada's 'Translators Notes' using more recent descriptions of computing machiner...
Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace: two visions of computing
Doron Swade, Royal Holloway, University of London reviews the trajectory of Babbage's calculating Engines and examines Ada Lovelace's contri...
Introduction to the Ada Lovelace Symposium
Alexander Wolf, President of the Association for Computing Machinery and Imperial College London, introduces the Ada Lovelace Symposium.