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Humans, machines, and the future of work

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Ada Lovelace Symposium - Celebrating 200 Years of a Computer Visionary
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Moshe Vardi, Rice University explores the question "If machines are capable of doing almost any work humans can do, what will humans do?".
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Ada Lovelace Symposium - Celebrating 200 Years of a Computer Visionary
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Moshe Vardi
Keywords
computing
Ada Lovelace
feminism
maths
Department: Department of Computer Science
Date Added: 18/12/2015
Duration: 00:39:09

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Mathematics and culture: geometry and its ‘Figures in the Air’

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Judith Grabiner, Pitzer College describes how the 19th century saw radical change, producing new ideas of space, destroying the unchallenging authority of mathematics, revolutionising art, making relativity possible and helping create modernism.
Includes an introduction by Michael Wooldridge, Head of the Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford.
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Ada Lovelace Symposium - Celebrating 200 Years of a Computer Visionary
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Judith Grabiner
Keywords
computing
Ada Lovelace
feminism
maths
Department: Department of Computer Science
Date Added: 18/12/2015
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Imaginary engines

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In this talk graphic artist and animator Sydney Padua talks about her bestselling graphic novel "The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage". She will also display her 3D animations of how the Analytical Engine would have looked and operated.
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Ada Lovelace Symposium - Celebrating 200 Years of a Computer Visionary
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Sydney Padua
Keywords
computing
Ada Lovelace
feminism
maths
Department: Department of Computer Science
Date Added: 18/12/2015
Duration: 00:46:58

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The Analytical Engine and the Aeolian Harp

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In this talk Imogen Forbes-Macphail, University of California, Berkeley, contextualises Lovelace's work on the engines against the backdrop of Romantic thought surrounding the power of poetry and the nature of original composition.
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Ada Lovelace Symposium - Celebrating 200 Years of a Computer Visionary
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Imogen Forbes-Macphail
Keywords
computing
Ada Lovelace
feminism
maths
Department: Department of Computer Science
Date Added: 18/12/2015
Duration: 00:21:41

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Enchantress of Numbers or a mere debugger?: a brief history of cultural and academic understandings of Ada Lovelace

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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.
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Ada Lovelace Symposium - Celebrating 200 Years of a Computer Visionary
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Elizabeth Bruton
Sally Shuttleworth
Keywords
computing
Ada Lovelace
feminism
maths
Department: Department of Computer Science
Date Added: 18/12/2015
Duration: 00:24:05

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The mathematical correspondence of Ada Lovelace and Augustus De Morgan

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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.
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Ada Lovelace Symposium - Celebrating 200 Years of a Computer Visionary
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Christopher Hollings
Keywords
computing
Ada Lovelace
feminism
maths
Department: Department of Computer Science
Date Added: 18/12/2015
Duration: 00:24:51

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The early education of Ada Byron

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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.
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Ada Lovelace Symposium - Celebrating 200 Years of a Computer Visionary
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Julia Markus
Keywords
computing
Ada Lovelace
feminism
maths
Department: Department of Computer Science
Date Added: 18/12/2015
Duration: 00:29:20

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The Travelling Santa Problem and Other Seasonal Challenges - Marcus du Sautoy

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The Secrets of Mathematics
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The Oxford Mathematics Christmas Public Lecture 2015 examined an aspect of Christmas not often considered: the mathematics.
Delivered by Marcus du Sautoy, Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science. The Oxford Mathematics Christmas Lecture is generously sponsored by G-Research - Researching investment ideas to predict financial markets.
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The Secrets of Mathematics
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Marcus du Sautoy
Keywords
maths
mathematics
numbers
Department: Mathematical Institute
Date Added: 18/12/2015
Duration: 00:57:36

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Pythagoras to pacifism: mathematics and archives

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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.
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Ada Lovelace Symposium - Celebrating 200 Years of a Computer Visionary
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June Barrow-Green
Vicki Hanson
Keywords
computing
Ada Lovelace
feminism
maths
Department: Department of Computer Science
Date Added: 18/12/2015
Duration: 00:26:12

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Will you concede me Poetical Science?

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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.
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Ada Lovelace Symposium - Celebrating 200 Years of a Computer Visionary
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Richard Holmes
Keywords
computing
Ada Lovelace
feminism
maths
Department: Department of Computer Science
Date Added: 18/12/2015
Duration: 01:00:07

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