Ada Lovelace Symposium - Celebrating 200 Years of a Computer Visionary

Ada Lovelace Symposium - Celebrating 200 Years of a Computer Visionary

By Oxford UniversityEducation

Download on the App Store

Download on the App Store

Get it on Google Play

Ada Lovelace Symposium - Celebrating 200 Years of a Computer Visionary episodes

December 18, 2015 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 Barr, Union College and Chair ACM-W.
Suw Charman-Anderson, Founder of Ada Lovelace Day.
Murray Pittock, University of Glasgow.
Cheryl Praeger, University of Western Australia
Cheryl Praeger, University of Western Australia.
59 min
December 18, 2015 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?".
40 min
December 18, 2015 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 relativity possible and helping create modernism. Includes an introduction by Michael Wooldridge, Head of the Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford.
43 min
December 18, 2015 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 relativity possible and helping create modernism. Includes an introduction by Michael Wooldridge, Head of the Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford. Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/
0 min
December 18, 2015 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 Analytical Engine would have looked and operated.
47 min
December 18, 2015 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 nature of original composition.
22 min
December 18, 2015 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 controversy of her claim as the first computer programmer. Includes an introduction from Sally Shuttleworth, Professor at University of Oxford.
25 min
December 18, 2015 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 Ada was learning with De Morgan.
25 min
December 18, 2015 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 early experiments.
30 min
December 18, 2015 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 the ACM.
27 min

About Ada Lovelace Symposium - Celebrating 200 Years of a Computer Visionary

From the publisher's feed

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.

More shows like Ada Lovelace Symposium - Celebrating 200 Years of a Computer Visionary

Philosophy for Beginners by Oxford University

Philosophy for Beginners

330 Listeners

Approaching Shakespeare by Oxford University

Approaching Shakespeare

330 Listeners

General Philosophy by Oxford University

General Philosophy

70 Listeners

Anthropology by Oxford University

Anthropology

72 Listeners

Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art lectures by Oxford University

Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art lectures

76 Listeners

Theoretical Physics - From Outer Space to Plasma by Oxford University

Theoretical Physics - From Outer Space to Plasma

60 Listeners

The Secrets of Mathematics by Oxford University

The Secrets of Mathematics

41 Listeners

Critical Reasoning for Beginners by Oxford University

Critical Reasoning for Beginners

30 Listeners

Kant's Critique of Pure Reason by Oxford University

Kant's Critique of Pure Reason

78 Listeners

Poetry with Alice Oswald by Oxford University

Poetry with Alice Oswald

26 Listeners