Ada-Belgium Celebrates 200th Birthday Ada Lovelace 10 Dec 2015

Ada-Belgium Celebrates 200th Birthday Ada Lovelace 10 Dec 2015

[Dirk Craeynest]

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            The Computer Science Department of the KU Leuven
                    and the Ada-Belgium organization
              are pleased to announce a celebration of the

      2 0 0 t h   B i r t h d a y   o f   A d a   L o v e l a c e

                 on Thursday, December 10, 2015, 20:00
      at the KU Leuven, Department of Computer Science, Auditorium
        Celestijnenlaan 200A, B-3001 Leuven (Heverlee), Belgium

  www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/15/151210-ab-ada200.html

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On the occasion of Ada Lovelace's 200th birthday, the Computer Science
Department of the KU Leuven together with Ada-Belgium organize a
small celebration, featuring a screening of the "To Dream Tomorrow"
documentary on Ada Lovelace.

Synopsis:

  "To Dream Tomorrow" is the story of Ada Byron Lovelace and her
  contributions to computing, over a hundred years before the time
  usually thought to be the start of the Computer Age.

  Daughter of a mathematically gifted, social activist 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 even beyond her famous
  contemporaries to describe universal computing much as we understand
  it today.

  (Language: English; Duration: 52 minutes)

This event will be held at the Computer Science Department of the
KU Leuven in Leuven (Heverlee), on Thursday, December 10, 2015.

Starting time is 20:00, and the program consists of a short
introduction, a screening of the documentary, and an informal drink
to socialize and network.

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10 December 2015 is the 200th anniversary of the birth of Ada Lovelace.
She is seen by many as the first programmer due to her work on Charles
Babbage's Analytical Engine, a mechanical general-purpose computer
he designed but didn't manage to build.

The Ada programming language is named after Ada Lovelace.  It is an
evolving state-of-the-art programming language especially suitable for
large, long-lived applications where safety, security, reliability,
and efficiency are critical.

Current application areas include air traffic control and management,
airplane engines and systems, railway signalling and transportation,
space missions, banking and financial systems, industrial command
and control systems, etc.  Due to its approach of detecting errors
as soon as possible its use offers valuable advantages, even for less
demanding applications.

Ada-Belgium is a non-profit organization that aims to be a forum for
persons and organizations interested in the Ada programming language,
in its applications and in Ada related technologies such as software
engineering methods, environments and tools.

Participation
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Everyone is welcome, and participation is free, but for practical
reasons we'd appreciate if you could inform us of your intent to
be there.

Please provide your name, email address and affiliation, by email
to <ada-belgium-board@cs.kuleuven.be>.

For directions to the Computer Science Department of the KU Leuven,
see <http://wms.cs.kuleuven.be/cs/english/about/directions>.

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Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement.
Please circulate among your contacts who may be in the neighborhood
at that time, or live or work close-by.

Dirk Craeynest - Ada-Belgium - Dirk.Craeynest@cs.kuleuven.be
(V20151205.1)

Re: Ada-Belgium Celebrates 200th Birthday Ada Lovelace 10 Dec 2015

[AdaMagica]

Am Samstag, 5. Dezember 2015 21:32:28 UTC+1 schrieb Dirk Craeynest:
>   Daughter of a mathematically gifted, social activist 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 even beyond her famous
>   contemporaries to describe universal computing much as we understand
>   it today.

You can find Manabrea's complete paper together with her notes published 1842 in
Ada User Journal Vol 36 No 3 Sept 2015
http://www.ada-europe.org/auj/home