How Ada approached information is the key to understanding her contribution. In this talk Betty Toole, author of "ADA: The Enchantress of Numbers" focuses on Ada's four questions: What is the source? What does it mean? What if? and Why not?

Ada Lovelace Symposium - Celebrating 200 Years of a Computer Visionary

Ada Lovelace lives forever: Ada’s four questions

10 December 2015 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Ada Lovelace, chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage’s unbuilt mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine. The Symposium is aimed at a broad audience of those interested in the history and culture of mathematics and computer science, presenting new discoveries for the Oxford archives, and other current scholarship on Lovelace’s life and work, and linking her ideas to contemporary thinking about mathematics, computing and artificial intelligence. Thanks to the ACM Digital Library for sponsoring the symposium.

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Ada Lovelace Symposium - Celebrating 200 Years of a Computer Visionary