UPDATE: This production has been cancelled due to recent advances with the COVID-19 Outbreak. Please see “Important Update About Ada and the Engine” for more information.

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.

David Kaiser is Germeshausen Professor of the History of Science and Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he also serves as Associate Dean for Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing. He is the author of several award-winning books on the history of science, including How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival (2011), which was named “Book of the Year” by Physics World magazine. His latest book is Quantum Legacies: Dispatches from an Uncertain World (2020). Kaiser co-directs a research group on early-universe cosmology with Alan Guth in MIT’s Center for Theoretical Physics, and has also designed and helped to conduct novel experimental tests of quantum theory. A Fellow of the American Physical Society, Kaiser has received MIT’s highest awards for excellence in teaching. His work has been featured in Science, Nature, the New York Times, and the New Yorker magazine. His group’s recent efforts to conduct a “Cosmic Bell” test of quantum entanglement were featured in a documentary film, “Einstein’s Quantum Riddle,” which premiered on PBS in 2019. Inspired by the “Cosmic Bell” test, Underground Railway Theater and playwright Patrick Gabidge created Both/And, about particle entanglement, which ran for two summers at the MIT Museum.