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.

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

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. The Symposium is aimed at a broad audience of those interested in the history and culture of mathematics and computer science, presenting new discoveries for the Oxford archives, and other current scholarship on Lovelace’s life and work, and linking her ideas to contemporary thinking about mathematics, computing and artificial intelligence. Thanks to the ACM Digital Library for sponsoring the symposium.

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Ada Lovelace Symposium - Celebrating 200 Years of a Computer Visionary