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: Muffy Cald...
Ada Lovelace Symposium - Celebrating 200 Years of a Computer Visionary
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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.
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?".
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 authorit...
Imaginary engines
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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...