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