Ada Lovelace Symposium - Celebrating 200 Years of a Computer Visionary

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.

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 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.

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.

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.