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At the heart of our celebrations in Oxford is a display at the Bodleian Library, 13th October – 18th December, with Ada's exercise books, childhood letters, correspondence with Charles Babbage, a newly found daguerreotype, and a wonderful new archive discovery showing computational thinking in action – Lovelace, Babbage, magic squares and networks.
At the heart of our celebrations in Oxford is a display at the Bodleian Library, 13th October – 18th December, with Ada's exercise books, childhood letters, correspondence with Charles Babbage, a newly found daguerreotype, and a wonderful new archive discovery showing computational thinking in action – Lovelace, Babbage, magic squares and networks.
At our Symposium on 9th and 10th December you can hear experts on Lovelace, Babbage, and computing and cultural history. A birthday reception and dinner on 9th December features a pre-dinner address by Lovelace's descendant the Earl of Lytton, and an after dinner speech by philanthropist Dame Stephanie Shirley. A small number of funded places are available - see website for details.
We've also lined up a wikipedia editathon and a 3-D printing hackathon, and Somerville College are celebrating Lovelace and Women in Science on 16th October.
For schools, The National Museum of Computing have a competition – write a letter to Ada ( http://www.tnmoc.org/ada ), and there will be a special "Ada Lovelace" edition of the award winning schools magazine cs4fn from QMUL ( http://www.cs4fn.org )
Further afield there will be a Lovelace exhibition at London's Science Museum; BBC4 have a new film about Ada Lovelace, at 9 pm on 17th September
We've also lined up a wikipedia editathon and a 3-D printing hackathon, and Somerville College are celebrating Lovelace and Women in Science on 16th October.
For schools, The National Museum of Computing have a competition – write a letter to Ada ( http://www.tnmoc.org/ada ), and there will be a special "Ada Lovelace" edition of the award winning schools magazine cs4fn from QMUL ( http://www.cs4fn.org )
Further afield there will be a Lovelace exhibition at London's Science Museum; BBC4 have a new film about Ada Lovelace, at 9 pm on 17th September
and Radio 4, readings from Lovelace's letters at 11 am on 14 and 21 September
Professor Ursula Martin CBE
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