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Opening SessionSponsored by ACT Europe. Monday 16th June, 2003
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To Dream Tomorrow: A Portrait of Ada LovelaceDocumentary produced and directed by John FUEGI and Jo FRANCIS
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To Dream Tomorrow, is the story of Ada Byron Lovelace, her work with Charles Babbage, and their contributions to computing over a hundred years before the time usually thought to be the start of the Computer Age.
The film has only been shown at a handful of places in the US so far, it will be formally premiered in Washington DC this summer. The screening at the opening session of the Ada-Europe conference is its European avant-premiere.
After the film screening a Q&A session will take place with John FUEGI, one of the directors of this documentary.
More information at the production web site "Flare Productions". |
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Some comments about the film: "An engaging, beautiful, well researched film that tells the story of the remarkable woman who fought against the customs of her day to participate in the dawn of the computer age." Leonard J. Shustek, Chair, Computer History Museum, Silicon Valley "'To Dream Tomorrow' is a moving and intelligent documentary on the fascinating life of Ada Byron Lovelace, who had the vision to see the principles of computing 100 years before the appearance of the modern computer." Irvin Kershner, Director of "The Empire Strikes Back" "In their beautiful documentary about Ada Lovelace, 'To Dream Tomorrow', John Fuegi and Jo Francis have brought to light the life of an extraordinary woman and her contributions to the early history of computing." Karen Mathews, Executive Vice President, Computer History Museum "The film was wonderful and I enjoyed every minute! The questions were very good and your answers were like the film: clean and superb." Professor Thomas Bergin, Editor, Annals of the History of Computing "Just as Ada's father the poet Lord Byron had a genius for writing so Ada had a genius for practical mathematics, her application of which has been as great a contribution to the world of computers as that of her father to the world of literature." Geoffrey Bond, Chair, London Byron Society "First class and very well done." Joel Shurkin, Pultizer Prize, Winner and author of Engines of the Mind |