Ada Lovelace Symposium - Celebrating 200 Years of a Computer Visionary

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.

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.

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.

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.

Will you concede me Poetical Science?

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 looks at some of these surprising connections.