Ada Lovelace Symposium - Celebrating 200 Years of a Computer Visionary Podcast
1) 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 Calder, University of Glasgow. Speakers: Valerie Bar...Show More
Enchantress of Abstraction, Bride of Science: must Ada Lovelace be a superheroine?
58:51 | Dec 18th, 2015
2) 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?". Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 ...Show More
3) Mathematics and culture: geometry and its ‘Figures in the Air’ (Slides)
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 rela...Show More
4) 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 rela...Show More
5) 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 A...Show More
6) 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 ...Show More
7) 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 con...Show More
8) 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 A...Show More
9) 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 ear...Show More
10) 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 ...Show More