Podcasts by Ada Lovelace Symposium - Celebrating 200 Years of a Computer Visionary
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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Enchantress of Abstraction, Bride of Science: must Ada Lovelace be a superheroine? from 2015-12-18T13:27:47
Panel discussion to conclude the symposium with Muffy Calder, Valerie Barr, Suw Charman-Anderson, Murray Pittock and Cheryl Praeger. Chair: Muffy Calder, University of Glasgow. Speakers:Valerie Bar...
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Humans, machines, and the future of work from 2015-12-18T13:19:40
Moshe Vardi, Rice University explores the question "If machines are capable of doing almost any work humans can do, what will humans do?".
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Mathematics and culture: geometry and its ‘Figures in the Air’ from 2015-12-18T13:15:34
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 r...
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Mathematics and culture: geometry and its ‘Figures in the Air’ (Slides) from 2015-12-18T13:15:34
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 r...
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Imaginary engines from 2015-12-18T13:10:16
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 th...
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The Analytical Engine and the Aeolian Harp from 2015-12-18T13:02
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 t...
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Enchantress of Numbers or a mere debugger?: a brief history of cultural and academic understandings of Ada Lovelace from 2015-12-18T12:57:29
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 ...
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The mathematical correspondence of Ada Lovelace and Augustus De Morgan from 2015-12-18T12:46:06
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 mathematic...
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The early education of Ada Byron from 2015-12-18T12:41:28
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 ...
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Pythagoras to pacifism: mathematics and archives from 2015-12-18T12:12:57
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 ...
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Will you concede me Poetical Science? from 2015-12-18T12:08:39
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 l...
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Ada Lovelace lives forever: Ada’s four questions from 2015-12-18T12:02:23
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 sourc...
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From Byron to the Ada Programming Language from 2015-12-17T15:37:30
John Barnes, Ada software consultant talks about Byron and his bear and the evolution of the computing language named after Ada Lovelace.
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Turning numbers into notes from 2015-12-17T15:33:39
Composer Emily Howard talks to David De Roure about her musical composition 'Ada sketches'.
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Ada Lovelace, a scientist in the archives from 2015-12-17T15:29:14
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...
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Notions and notations: designing computers before computing from 2015-12-17T15:05:10
Adrian Johnstone, Royal Holloway, University of London reviews Babbage's remarkable 'Mechanical Notation'.
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Interpreting dreams of abstract machines from 2015-12-17T12:46:26
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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Interpreting dreams of abstract machines (Slides) from 2015-12-17T12:46:26
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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Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace: two visions of computing from 2015-12-17T12:35:36
Doron Swade, Royal Holloway, University of London reviews the trajectory of Babbage's calculating Engines and examines Ada Lovelace's contribution to computing.
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Introduction to the Ada Lovelace Symposium from 2015-12-14T16:28:25
Alexander Wolf, President of the Association for Computing Machinery and Imperial College London, introduces the Ada Lovelace Symposium.
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