so, allen touring says that's lady lovelace's objection. 100 years later he is reading ada lovelace's notes and calling that lady lovelace's oxes that machines will never think. he comes up with a test of how do we know machines will never think? and you put a machine in a room and a person in a room and send questions in, and if you can't tell the difference after a while, there's no empirical reason to say the machine is not thinking. you can have a lot of people say that's not a very good test. but still the turing test is ingrained how we look at artificial intelligence. a movies coming out called "the imitation game" about that test. now, think the two strands of computer history, what i actual the ada lovelace strapped, which is the combination of humans and machines will always be more powerful than just machines doing artificial intelligence alone. and that is one of the themes i try to explore in the book. it ended with jenny, who i know you're having, talking about how watson and deep blue, the two machines ibm built, in the end become more powerful when combined with the im

she said it was on an lovelace. actually i did know who she was met by cannot remember what she did that would help define the a digital and computer revolution. so my daughter got me turn gone to lovelace. i was already writing this book i was working off and on 15 years but i needed a frame. but the partnership with charles babich that is the great connection of the humanities and to processors and to talk about steve jobs. per call that every product line she had the intersection of the liberal arts and technology. in that is what lovelace warrant with her bother as a pole with her mother as a mathematician and she had that intersection from captives of the digital age. >> there is a thesis so that everyone understands with the key to innovation in with ideas their practical engineers partnered closely to turn concepts into contrapticontrapti ons and collaborative technologist to turn it into practical products. you referred to the ecosystem of begin in begin with the process of collaboration. he would call her m

backbench and lovelace had their own he called her my view is we should not overstates her but in some ways not as great of a mathematician as she would have liked to believe that could understand the sequence of her numbers and become the first published program when somebody disparages this is the lovelace days we should celebrate its. [applause] so tell me the sequence of the numbers and how you do a chart on a mechanical processor to generate them and then people understand what a partnership she had and how important she was too bad pitch -- babich as a human calculator and then to look at the mechanical breeding rooms -- breathing room she had the punch cards in the mechanical rooms of the industrial revolution that day saw on the trip but her father i mean that literally the only speech he gives in the house of lords is defending the followers of the one who was smashing the lives to put people out of work with disruptive technology is not new. [laughter] it goes back a long time. was so instead of thinking they are bad she says these punch cards go downstairs and but get them s

she said adl lovelace. i did know who she was i could not remember what was it that she did that helped to define the computer revolution? all my a daughter got made turned onto a bill lovelace that was already writing this book over 50 years but i needed of flame and the more that i steadied her partnership with charles babbage the more i realize that is a great framing device with the connections from the committees to processors and engineering remember when i was here talking about steve jobs jobs, that we even showed it that every product launch he had the intersection of the liberal arts and technology. and dash she helped to create that intersection and that is her true creativity belongs. >> but there is the thesis so everyone understands this is the passage i picked out creative geniuses with innovative idea is to turn concepts into do contraptions. and you believe then that ecosystem and then the practical engineer with the process of collaboration. >> but did we should not overstate her and not o

as ada lovelace said, you combine ideas from all over. so mockly gets back to the university of pennsylvania with all of these ideas, and he says but i'm going to need a team. so he hires -- not hires, he partners with ec earth, a great mechanic and engineer who's, i think, one of his grandfather or something had invented the turkish taffy machine, so he knows how to, you know, make machines that don't get all gummed up or whatever. there are all sorts of mechanics, there are people who do information theory helping him, and there are actually two sixth grade women mathematicians who are there to program it just in the tradition of ada lovelace. they were great women mathematicians because one of the things that surprised me -- grace hopper, for example, got her ph.d. in math from yale, and it stunned me to know that more women got ph.d.s in math in the 1930s than a generation later both in proportion and absolute numbers. it was before women were told that they didn't know how to do math, so they are at the forefront of this revolution.

i believe in that and at the heart of that vision of ada lovelace is if you are going to connect humans to technology you have to connect the humanities to the scientist. you have to feel comfortable with both. that is what google is all about and that is what justin hall creating blogging is all about. that is what f. williams when he does blogger in twitter but now medium. medium his new platform, that isn't just about computer platform. it's about connecting it and making more -- making a more intimate a more personal. allen kay scott that vision at xerox parc. make it personal and stand with that connection of the humanities and art technology. so maybe someday there will be a singularity in which the machines won't need us and we'll leave the spine. lord byron felt that and he was there with barry shellen when they were at frankenstein's monster which is the great sort of theme of that. but i have always believed that those who feel comfortable that the enter section of the humanities and the sciences are like steve jobs come the people who are going to be the most creative. >> we

it didn't quite work because what's a lovelace does is combines poetry with mathematics. recalls it poetics science. she stands at that intersection i mentioned it steve jobs talked about and as soon as i read that i remembered the intersection that was on the slides that steve jobs used to show every product launch. on the screen behind him when the product launch was over, there would just be a street signs that said liberal arts technology and he would say that is where we stand, that intersection. hy was reading about her. because she wandered around industrial revolution in flint in the 1830s and she saw the mechanical looms, using punch cards to do beautiful patterns, mechanized loomis. lord byron was the money. i mean that literally. is only speech was defending the followers of ned led, who is smashing mechanical looms on the theory that technology was putting creative work -- creative people out of work. they thought technology would put people out of work, they were wrong then, they are wrong now when they think that. if you look at the punch cards, you have a f