Film Screening
To Dream Tomorrow: Ada Byron Lovelace
National Museum of Computing, Bletchley Park
Saturday 8th October
2.30pm
To celebrate Ada Lovelace Day 2011 the
National Museum of Computing is proud to present Flare Productions film about
Ada Lovelace, followed by a discussion with the Directors John Fuegi and Jo
Francis.
‘To Dream Tomorrow’ is the story of Ada
Byron Lovelace (1815-1852) and her contribution to computing, a hundred years
before the start of the computer age. Daughter of a mathematically gifted
mother and the 'mad, bad, and dangerous to know' poet Lord Byron, Ada was 17
when she began studying a prototype mechanical calculator designed by
mathematician Charles Babbage. By the time she was 27, she had moved beyond her
famous contemporaries and predecessors such as Leibniz & Pascal, to describe
universal computing much as we understand it today. Alan Turing, who also
worked at Bletchley Park, was familiar with Lovelace’s work.
The screening is kindly made possible by a
grant from the School of Humanities, Kingston University, London. Curated by
Ele Carpenter, Goldsmiths College, University of London.
The National Museum of Computing
Block H
Bletchley Park
Milton Keynes
MK3 6EB
On Saturday 8th October the
Museum will be open 1-5pm.
Entrance £5 / £2.50 concessions.
To Dream Tomorrow:
Ada Byron Lovelace, Color, 52 minutes.
Directed and
Produced by John Füegi and Jo Francis, 2003.
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