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 popular representations of Ada Lovelace and engage with the controversy of her claim as the first computer programmer. Includes an introduction from Sally Shuttleworth, Professor at University of Oxford.

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Enchantress of Numbers or a mere debugger?: a brief history of cultural and academic understandings of Ada Lovelace is an episode from Ada Lovelace Symposium - Celebrating 200 Years of a Computer Visionary by Oxford University.

This episode is 24:05 long.

This episode was published on Dec 18, 2015.

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