Skip to main content
Home

Main navigation

  • Home
  • Series
  • People
  • Depts & Colleges
  • Open Education

Main navigation

  • Home
  • Series
  • People
  • Depts & Colleges
  • Open Education

Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace: two visions of computing

Series
Ada Lovelace Symposium - Celebrating 200 Years of a Computer Visionary
Video Audio Embed
Doron Swade, Royal Holloway, University of London reviews the trajectory of Babbage's calculating Engines and examines Ada Lovelace's contribution to computing.

More in this series

View Series
Ada Lovelace Symposium - Celebrating 200 Years of a Computer Visionary

Introduction to the Ada Lovelace Symposium

Alexander Wolf, President of the Association for Computing Machinery and Imperial College London, introduces the Ada Lovelace Symposium.
Previous
Ada Lovelace Symposium - Celebrating 200 Years of a Computer Visionary
Captioned

Interpreting dreams of abstract machines

Bernard Sufrin, University of Oxford establishes a context of Ada's 'Translators Notes' using more recent descriptions of computing machinery and programming methods.
Next
Transcript Available

Episode Information

Series
Ada Lovelace Symposium - Celebrating 200 Years of a Computer Visionary
People
Doron Swade
Keywords
computing
Ada Lovelace
feminism
maths
Department: Department of Computer Science
Date Added: 17/12/2015
Duration: 00:45:19

Subscribe

Apple Podcast Video Apple Podcast Audio Audio RSS Feed Video RSS Feed

Download

Download Video Download Audio Download Transcript

Footer

  • About
  • Accessibility
  • Contribute
  • Copyright
  • Contact
  • Privacy
'Oxford Podcasts' Twitter Account @oxfordpodcasts | MediaPub Publishing Portal for Oxford Podcast Contributors | Upcoming Talks in Oxford | © 2011-2022 The University of Oxford