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Ada Lovelace

Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Making machines: Mary Shelley and Ada Lovelace

Join our experts in conversation as they consider the thinking of two great 19th century women writers exploring the boundary between human and machine
Futuremakers

From Ada Lovelace to Alan Turing, the birth of AI?

Many developments in science are achieved through people being able to ‘stand on the shoulders of giants’ and in the history of AI two giants in particular stand out.
Strachey Lectures

Lovelace Lecture: Learning and Efficiency of Outcomes in Games

Éva Tardos, Department of Computer Science, Cornell University, gives the 2017 Ada Lovelace Lecture on 6th June 2017.
Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School

Ada Lovelace: Creative computing and an experimental humanities

Pip Willcox and David De Roure give a presentation on Ada Lovelace, one of the early pioneers in computing.
Ada Lovelace Symposium - Celebrating 200 Years of a Computer Visionary

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.
Ada Lovelace Symposium - Celebrating 200 Years of a Computer Visionary

Humans, 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?".
Ada Lovelace Symposium - Celebrating 200 Years of a Computer Visionary
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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 unchallenging authority of mathematics, revolutionising art, making relativity possible and helping create modernism.
Ada Lovelace Symposium - Celebrating 200 Years of a Computer Visionary

Imaginary engines

In this talk graphic artist and animator Sydney Padua talks about her bestselling graphic novel "The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage". She will also display her 3D animations of how the Analytical Engine would have looked and operated.
Ada Lovelace Symposium - Celebrating 200 Years of a Computer Visionary

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 of Romantic thought surrounding the power of poetry and the nature of original composition.
Ada Lovelace Symposium - Celebrating 200 Years of a Computer Visionary

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.
Ada Lovelace Symposium - Celebrating 200 Years of a Computer Visionary

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 of Oxford reports on recent new studies of the mathematics Ada was learning with De Morgan.
Ada Lovelace Symposium - Celebrating 200 Years of a Computer Visionary

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-daughter relationship was a psychological spur to Ada's early experiments.
Ada Lovelace Symposium - Celebrating 200 Years of a Computer Visionary

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. Includes an introduction from Vicki Hanson, Vice-President of the ACM.
Ada Lovelace Symposium - Celebrating 200 Years of a Computer Visionary

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 between science and poetry. In this talk Richard Holmes looks at some of these surprising connections.
Ada Lovelace Symposium - Celebrating 200 Years of a Computer Visionary

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 Numbers" focuses on Ada's four questions: What is the source? What does it mean? What if? and Why not?
Ada Lovelace Symposium - Celebrating 200 Years of a Computer Visionary

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.
Ada Lovelace Symposium - Celebrating 200 Years of a Computer Visionary

Turning numbers into notes

Composer Emily Howard talks to David De Roure about her musical composition 'Ada sketches'.
Ada Lovelace Symposium - Celebrating 200 Years of a Computer Visionary

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 Lovelace's family documents. Includes an introduction by Nick Woodhouse, President of the Clay Mathematics Institute.
Ada Lovelace Symposium - Celebrating 200 Years of a Computer Visionary

Notions and notations: designing computers before computing

Adrian Johnstone, Royal Holloway, University of London reviews Babbage's remarkable 'Mechanical Notation'.
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Interpreting dreams of abstract machines

Bernard Sufrin, University of Oxford establishes a context of Ada's 'Translators Notes' using more recent descriptions of computing machinery and programming methods.

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