Central Conversations for “Ada and the Engine”
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CANCELLED – The History of Women in Computing: A Post-Show Conversation with David Kaiser
Join us on Friday, April 17 for a post-show conversation with David Kaiser.
Physicist and historian of science David Kaiser hosts an illuminating conversation about the play and about recent research on women in computing and the contributions they have made.
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CANCELLED – Artificial Ada: A Post-show Conversation on Artificial Intelligence
Join us on Saturday, April 18 for a post-show conversation with Carla Brodley on Artificial Intelligence.
Renowned computer scientist, Carla Brodley, will reflect on the performance from her perspective as an expert in Artificial Intelligence. -
CANCELLED – Inside the Engine: A Pre-Show Symposium about what it was, and why it was revolutionary.
Join us on Saturday, April 18 at 7:00pm for a pre-show conversation with David Unger and Dick Rubenstein.
Historian of Science David Unger talks about the significance of the collaboration between Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage, and Computer Scientist Dick Rubenstein—who built a theatrical replica of Charles Babbage's model of the Difference Engine —offers his insider perspective on the mechanics of what they imagined. -
CANCELLED – A Post-Show Conversation with the Indian Institutes of Technology Association of Greater New England.
Join us on Sunday, April 19 for a post-show conversation hosted by IIT AGNE. -
CANCELLED – Living in Ada’s World: A Post-Show Conversation with Harry Lewis
Join us on Wednesday, April 22 for a post-show conversation with Harry Lewis. Distinguished mathematician, computer scientist, and former Dean of Harvard College, Harry Lewis leads a conversation about the play. -
CANCELLED – Artists and Audiences
Join us on Thursday, April 23 for a post-show talkback with the cast and crew of Ada and the Engine! -
CANCELLED – Computer Science Without Computers?!: A Post-Show Conversation with Kim Smith
Join us Friday, April 24 join us for a post-show conversation with Kim Smith. Artist and CEO of Learning Beautiful, Kim Smith, discusses the themes of computational thinking, innovation, and the intersection of art and technology presented in Ada and the Engine. -
CANCELLED – “The Genie in the Machine” – Pre-Show Short Play Readings, Part II
Join us Saturday, April 25 at 7pm for a pre-show Playreading Event with the Catalyze Playwriting Group. Catalyze Playwright Group performs a reading of three new short plays about the potential for artificial intelligence to grant or misinterpret our wishes. The plays were inspired by Ada Lovelace for CST’s run of -
CANCELLED – Hardware vs. Software: A Post-Show Conversation with Joe Bates and Oliver Strimpel
Join us Sunday, April 26 for a post-show conversation with Joe Bates Oliver Strimpel. Two computer scientists dig into the collaboration between Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage. Hint: it's all about hardware vs. software. -
CANCELLED – Seeing Through Ada’s Eyes: A Post-Show Conversation with Jim Cocola
Join us on Wednesday, April 29th for a post-show conversation with Jim Cocola. Professor Cocola will respond to the themes presented in Ada and the Engine in relation to digital humanities work. In particular, the application of artificial intelligence to poetry and music. Professor Cocola will also share the exciting insights from a program he built to analyze Byron’s poetry. -
CANCELLED – Ada at the Knights’ Round Table: A Post-Show Conversation with Knight Science Journalists.
Join us Thursday, April 30 for a post-show conversation with two fellows from the Knights of Science Journalism. KSJ Fellows are experts at raising questions at the intersection of science, technology and our daily lives. -
CANCELLED – Artificial Intelligence in Art: A Pre-show Conversation with Diemut Strebe
Join us Saturday, May 2nd for a pre-show conversation with artist Diemut Streb. Hear about her work at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Visual Art and how it examines the crossover between humanity and machines. -
CANCELLED – From the Engine to Guitar Hero: A Post-Show Conversation with Eran Egozy
Join us Thursday, May 7 for a post-show conversation with Guitar Hero and Rock Band creator Eran Egozy. Hear his perspective as a musician and technologist whose work dovetails with Ada’s dream of machines that could create music. -
CANCELLED – No Neutral Technologies: A Post-Show Scholar Social with Woodrow Hartzog and Adriana Cracuin.
Join us Thursday, April 16 for our post-show Scholar Social with Woodrow Hartzog and Adriana Craciun.
Scholars Woodrow Hartzog, an expert on cyber privacy, and Adriana Cracuin, an expert on Byron and the cultures of science, discuss their interdisciplinary work and its relationship to the ideas raised in Ada and the Engine, in particular the moral culture surrounding technology. -
CANCELLED – Life in a Shadow: A Post-Show Conversation on Ada Lovelace’s Childhood with a Famous, but Absent Father
Join us Sunday, April 12 at 4pm for a post-show conversation with Sue Weaver Schopf.
Sue Weaver Schopf discusses Ada’s upbringing by Lady Byron—in light of her disastrous marriage to poet Lord Byron—and the opposing views Ada had of her father. -
CANCELLED – “The Genie in the Machine” – Pre-Show Short Play Readings, Part I
Join us Saturday, April 11 at 7pm for a pre-show Playreading Event with the Catalyze Playwriting Group.
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CANCELLED – Music and Technology Collide: A Post-Show Conversation with “America’s most wired composer”
Join us Saturday, April 11 for a post-show conversation with Tod Machover.
Musical visionary Tod Machover discusses the play and how music innovation has grown since Ada first imagined machines that could create music. -
CANCELLED – Notes Don’t Lie: A Post-Show Conversation about the Publication of Ada’s Work
Join us Friday, April 10 for a post-show conversation with Historian of Science, Alex Csiszar.Join Harvard Associate Professor Dr. Alex Csiszar as he responds to Ada and the Engine. Listen to Dr. Csiszar discuss the production through his unique lens of historical science and scientific publishing!