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The scientific life of Ada Lovelace

A talk for Ada Lovelace Day 2019 by Professor Ursula Martin

We are delighted to announce that our keynote speaker for Ada Lovelace Day 2019 at the University of Edinburgh is Professor Ursula Martin CBE FREng FRSE DSc.

This evening talk is a free event and part of a whole day of activities celebrating the achievements of women in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM).

Date, time and location

  • Tuesday 8th October 2019
  • 17:45 – 20:00 BST
  • Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB

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Ada Lovelace

Ada, Countess of Lovelace (1815-1852) is best known for a remarkable article about Babbage’s unbuilt computer, the Analytical Engine, which not only presented the first documented computer program, but also, going well beyond Babbage’s ideas of computers as manipulating numbers, outlined their creative possibilities and the limits of what they could do.

The comprehensive archive of Lovelace’s papers preserved in Oxford’s Bodleian Library displays Lovelace’s wide scientific interests, and her grasp of the potential of mathematics as a uniting link between the material and symbolic worlds.

In this talk we start to explore Lovelace, her background, her scientific ideas and her contemporary legacy, and reflective more broadly on the role of history of computing in present day thinking about the discipline.

Professor Ursula Martin

Professor Ursula Martin CBE FREng FRSE DSc is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Edinburgh, and a Visiting Professor in Mathematics at the University of Oxford. After a career in research and research leadership spanning many aspects of computing and mathematics, she now works on the context, long term development and impact of fundamental ideas in computer science

Programme for the event

  • 5.45pm – 6pm: Arrive at the venue
  • 6pm – 6.45pm: The scientific life of Ada Lovelace – talk by Professor Ursula Martin
  • 6.45pm-7pm: Audience Q&A
  • 7pm – 8pm: Drinks and nibbles reception
  • 8pm: Event close

Book your place now

The University of Edinburgh will be hosting its very first Ada Lovelace Day on Tuesday 13th October 2015 – an international celebration of the achievements of women in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM). Come join us for a day of inspiration and creative activities (digital and analogue!). Come for just part of the day, or come for the whole day! Booking is not essential, but helps us a lot with planning – booking links below.

Where

Schedule (morning)

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1) Introduction to the day (11:00-11:30)

  • with speakers on Lovelace, research using LEGO, programming and games (Melissa Highton , Katya Krasnopeeva & Judy Robertson)

2a) Compose your own music with algorithms

  • sessions running at these times: 11:30 – 12:15; 12:15 – 13:00; 13:00 – 14:00

2b) Build your own Raspberry Pi enclosures with LEGO

  • sessions running at these times: 11:30 – 14:00

2c) Play and compete in metadata games

  • University of Edinburgh’s Library and University Collections division
  • sessions running at these times: 11:30 – 14:00

Schedule (afternoon)

3) Wikipedia editathon (14:00-17:00)

Join us to raise profile of women in computer science & inspire a new generation!

Receive some expert advice and training on how to write, amend and publish articles for Wikipedia, and then help write new articles or improve existing articles about prominent Edinburgh University women, past and present, who are under-represented within Wikipedia.

PRE-REGISTRATION WITH THESE WIKI INSTRUCTIONS (click link)

3a) Wikipedia training (14:00-15:15)

3b) Afternoon tea (15:15-15:30; catering provided)

3c) Wikipedia Editing and Publishing: Edinburgh’s women in Computer Science (15:30-17:00)

You are welcome to bring your own topics of interest to write Wikipedia articles about too.

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Hope to see you there!