We are delighted to announce that registration has opened for the Ada Lovelace Symposium 2015, celebrating the 200th birthday of computer visionary Ada Lovelace. The Symposium takes place on 9 and 10 December, in the Mathematical Institute of the University of Oxford, with a reception and dinner on 9 December. There will also be a workshop for graduate students and early career researchers on 8 December. For more details, see https://adalovelaceworkshop.wordpress.com/call-for-papers/.
Symposium and registration blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/adalovelace/symposium/
Our amazing line-up includes:
- John Barnes, expert on the ADA programming language
- Valerie Barr, Union College, computer scientist and chair ACM’s Committee on Women in Computing
- June Barrow-Green, Open University, historian of 19th-century mathematics
- Sir Drummond Bone, Master Balliol College and Byron expert
- Elizabeth Bruton, Museum of the History of Science, Oxford, historian of technology
- Muffy Calder, University of Glasgow, computer scientist
- Suw Charman-Anderson, founder of Ada Lovelace Day, a global celebration of women in STEM
- Imogen Forbes-Macphail, Berkeley, PhD student on Lovelace, poetry and mathematics
- Judith Grabiner, Pitzer College, historian and mathematician
- Vicki Hanson, Rochester Institute of Technology, computer scientist and Vice-President ACM
- Christopher Hollings, University of Oxford, historian of mathematics working on the Ada Lovelace archive
- Richard Holmes, British Academy, biographer and author of The Age of Wonder
- Adrian Johnstone, Royal Holloway University of London, computer scientist and historian
- The Earl of Lytton, member of the House of Lords and descendant of Ada Lovelace
- Julia Markus, Hofstra University, novelist, biographer and author of the recently published Lady Byron and Her Daughters
- Ursula Martin, University of Oxford, mathematician and computer scientist
- Sydney Padua, graphic artist, animator and author of the steampunk comic and book The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage
- Murray Pittock, University of Glasgow, cultural historian
- Cheryl E Praeger, University of Western Australia, mathematician and Foreign Secretary, Australian Academy of Science
- Soren Riis, Queen Mary University of London, mathematician
- Dame Stephanie Shirley, businesswoman and philanthropist
- Bernard Sufrin, University of Oxford, academic and expert on computer programming and its history
- Doron Swade, museum curator and author, expert on computer pioneer Charles Babbage and his engines
- Betty Toole, author Ada, the Enchantress of Numbers, the influential anthology of Lovelace’s correspondence
- Moshe Vardi, Rice University, computer scientist and expert on logic and artificial intelligence
- Mike Wooldridge, University of Oxford, computer scientist and head of Department of Computer Science
- Alex Wolf, Imperial College London, computer scientist and President of the ACM
For more information or to register, please see Symposium details and registration
See you in December!