Ada Lovelace Week 2020 (October 13-16, 3PM CST): This event takes inspiration from Ada Lovelace’s legacy and celebrates its impact today with a series of talks that aim at bringing to the foreground the work of many scientists, artists, and technologists; all of them brilliant women and non-binary technologists who take programming and hardware further in novel & alternative directions, from human-computer interactive technologies, new media art, societal impacts of technology, accessibility technologies, creativity support tools, multimedia games, and many other perspectives!
With this event, we celebrate the legacy of Ada Lovelace, a mathematician and writer who recognized the full potential of computers in the 1800s, and we also wish to bring an to the foreground the unmistakable contribution and impact of women and non-binary folks in technology, which histotically has been pushed to the background.
Our event will span over 4 sessions over 4 days with each day featuring a different set of panelists followed by an open Q&A. Registered participants will receive a Zoom link, and the event will also be publicly viewable via a YouTube livestream.
Art: Thursday, October 15, 3:00-5:00PM CDT. Our third day features an art panel with Ashlyn Sparrow and Snow Xu, focusing on how computing allows new art forms to emerge.
All our events are free of charge and public, join us. All information is at http://ada2020.cs.uchicago.edu. Register for sessions here!