Ada Lovelace: The Programmer, the Maths, and the Myths
Centre for Computing History 1 Rene Court, Coldhams Road,, CambridgeAda Lovelace is widely celebrated as "the first programmer”, the “enchantress of numbers” whose unique “poetical science” enabled her to make startling predictions about modern computing in a famous 1843 paper about Charles Babbage’s proposed analytical engine. In this talk, Professor Ursula Martin (CBE FRSE, University of Oxford) will separate fact from myth, talk about what […]