the thrilling adventures of lovelace and babbage

Padua lives in Edinburgh, Scotland, with her husband. It eventually became a best-selling graphic novel, winner of the British Society for the History of Mathematics Neumann Prize and nominated for two Eisner Awards. She started drawing her cult webcomic The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage by accident in 2009 when a joke blog post took on a life of its own. Her visual effects work includes both hand-drawn and computer-generated animation and appears in such films as The Iron Giant, The Jungle Book, and The Lion King she is currently a lead animator on Mufasa: The Lion King.

She studied theater at the University of Alberta and animation at Sheridan College in Toronto. She grew up partly in Mexico City, partly on the Canadian prairie, and partly in Narnia.

Sydney Padua is a graphic novelist, animator, and filmmaker. From the machine’s clicks, clacks, and thunks Ruehr created a digital percussion section, which she programmed into an electronic marimba-a synthesizer played with mallets by a percussionist-to incorporate the actual sounds as part of the opera. Ruehr’s composition includes sounds from a real Difference Engine, which she recorded in Seattle. Charles Babbage was the eccentric inventor of the Difference Engine, an enormous clockwork calculating machine that would have been the first computer if he had ever finished it. Lovelace was the first great genius to develop a programming language, and she is still not generally known. It centers on scientists Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage, the real-life unsung inventors of the first computer, fighting crime in alternate universes with their new invention.Īda Lovelace was a mathematician, gambler, and proto-programmer, whose writings contained the first-ever appearance of general computing theory. The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage, presented by MIT CAST and Guerilla Opera, is a new opera by composer Elena Ruehr and Pulitzer-prize winning librettist Royce Vavrek with stage direction by Giselle Ty.īased on the New York Times best-selling graphic novel by Sydney Padua, this is the first staging of the comedic new work. Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT.School of Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences.

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The thrilling adventures of lovelace and babbage