Babbage, Lovelace and Turing

Lecture

About this event

The ideas of Babbage, Lovelace and Turing and the relationships between them, following the original work by Babbage on his Analytical Engine, has been enlarged by new archival material. The significant ideas in modern electronic digital computing, many of which are associated with Turing, were explicitly articulated earlier in the work of Lovelace and Babbage. In fact Babbage, Lovelace and Turing were the originators of the modern computer. Despite Babbage's ground work his ideas fell into historical obscurity, and the Analytical Engine was unknown to builders of the later electromechanical and electronic computing machines, resulting in the need to re-invent many of the architectural innovations Babbage had proposed. This lecture will consider recent developments related to this.

Speaker

Dr. Doron D. Swade MBE PhD, MSc, C.Eng, FBCS, CITP, is Visiting Professor (History of Computing) at University of Portsmouth and Research Fellow (Hon) (Computer Science) at
Royal Holloway College, University of London

Programme

Evening Lecture: 19:00 for 19:30 start


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