Ada Lovelace Symposium University of Oxford
9th and 10th December 2015
https://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/adalovelace/
An interdisciplinary Symposium celebrating the life and legacy of Ada Lovelace, 1815-1852, will take place at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford on 9th and 10th December 2015. Ada Lovelace is best known for a remarkable article about Charles Babbage’s unbuilt computer, the Analytical Engine, and the symposium will present Lovelace’s life and work, in the context of nineteenth century mathematics, science and culture, and present-day thinking on computing and artificial intelligence.
Speakers include: computer scientists John Barnes, Adrian Johnstone, Ursula Martin, Bernard Sufrin and Moshe Vardi; historians of computing and mathematics, June Barrow Green, Elizabeth Bruton, Judith Grabiner, Christopher Hollings and Doron Swade; Lovelace scholars Imogen Forbes- Macphail, Julia Markus and Betty Toole; historian and biographer Richard Holmes; and graphic artist Sydney Padua. Participants in a panel on female icons include computer scientists Valerie Barr and Muffy Calder, founder of Ada Lovelace Day Suw Charman-Anderson, mathematician Cheryl Praeger, and cultural historian Murray Pittock.
Reception and Dinner in Balliol College on 9th December includes a pre-dinner address by Lovelace’s descendant of the Earl of Lytton, and an after dinner speech by philanthropist Dame Stephanie Shirley.
Registration for the symposium is £40, or £90 including the symposium dinner. Some sponsored place are available. For further information and registration see https://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/adalovelace/
Display at Oxford’s Bodleian Library, 13th October – 18th December, include Lovelace’s exercise books, childhood letters, correspondence with Charles Babbage, a newly found daguerreotype, and a new archive discovery showing computational thinking in action – Lovelace, Babbage, magic squares and networks.
Sponsors This event has been made possible thanks to generous sponsorship from ACM, Adacore, AHRC, British Computer Society, Clay Mathematics Institute, EPSRC, google, IMA, London Mathematical Society, Taylor and Francis. Partners include Queen Mary University of London’s cs4fn project.
Professor Ursula Martin CBE
Chair, Ada Lovelace Celebrations 2015
University of Oxford
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