Ada Lovelace Symposium 9-10 December - live streaming

When you think about the founders of computing you may think Alan Turing, you may even think Charles Babbage. But you should definitely think about Ada Lovelace. Ada Lovelace is not only the link between Babbage and Turing, but a woman of fierce originality and intellectual interests whose ideas went beyond Babbage’s ideas of computers as manipulating numbers, and focused on their creative possibilities and their limits, the very issues with which we are wrestling today.

On 9 and 10 December the University of Oxford's celebrations of the 200th anniversary of Ada’s birth will culminate in a two-day Symposium exploring Ada's life and work, the scientific and cultural world around her and her continuing influence on science and the arts today. This Symposium will be streamed live.