June 2022: Alan Osborne's topic was about Ada Lovelace (1815 – 1852), daughter of famed poet Lord Byron. You’ll have heard of her - or you won’t. With the title Ada Lovelace, the enchantress of numbers you’ll hear the story of Ada, Countess of Lovelace, who was a mathematical genius. She worked with Charles Babbage the inventor of the world's first mechanical computer and she is credited as having written the world's first computer programme. Babbage was of course a Cambridge graduate.
Our speaker Alan Osborne lives in nearby Sawston. Trained as a design engineer Alan worked in sales at the Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company that made medical equipment such as microtomes and electron microscopes. (Alan really would like to contact a former colleague called David Ward who used to live in Melbourn near Royston. If you know him please get in touch with us). This June 2022 meeting was our last meeting solely on Zoom.
| Event type: | Meeting |
| Date: | Wednesday 15th June 2022 |
| Time: | 2:30 pm |
| Group: | monthly speaker meeting |