Ada Lovelace Day 2010 now over
Ada Lovelace Day, the international day of blogging (videologging, podcasting, comic drawing etc.!) to draw attention to the achievements of women in technology and science, is now over for 2010.
Thank you to everyone who took part, and to everyone who made it the success it was!
Some of the most inspiring women include ancient, historical and present day figures, e.g.: Ada Lovelace, Grace Hopper, Marie Curie, Rosalind Franklin, Hedy Lamarr, Emmy Noether, Lise Meitner, Delia Derbyshire, Hypatia of Alexandria, and Limor Fried.
There are many more gems in the list, of course, so do spend some time browsing! To view this year’s contributions, look at our map or list of posts.
For ongoing updates about Ada Lovelace Day 2010, please follow us on Twitter, join our Facebook group or read our blog. We still have some tricks up our sleeve so watch this space!
Who was Ada?
Ada Lovelace was one of the world’s first computer programmers, and one of the first people to see computers as more than just a machine for doing sums. She wrote programmes for Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine, a general-purpose computing machine, despite the fact that it was never built. She also wrote the very first description of a computer and of software. Read more on our About page, or Wikipedia.
by Suw on 27, July 2010
Open Tech 2010 is now open for business. If you’re a woman in tech, you should consider submitting an idea for a session as the schedule is still open, but get in quick as closing date is 30th June!
Open Tech 2010
sponsored by data.gov.uk
Saturday 11th Septmber
ULU, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HY
http://www.ukuug.org/events/opentech2010/
Tickets only £5
Students Free Entry
40 talks across 3 tracks over 7 hours, on crowds, earthquakes and battlefronts, which hope to challenge, inspire or talk about something that makes you want to get involved...
Read more on Open Tech 2010 call for participation
by Suw on 4, June 2010
The BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT (was the British Computer Society) recently launched the Information Pioneers campaign to raise awareness of five “often forgotten” pioneers: Ada Lovelace, Alan Turing, Sir Clive Sinclair, Hedy Lamarr and Sir Tim Berners-Lee. Each has a short film about them, so here’s Ortis Deley from The Gadget Show talking about Ada.
Please do pop along to the website and vote for your favourite...
Read more on Ada currently 5th in Information Pioneers poll
by Suw on 25, March 2010
Ada Lovelace Day is winding down a bit now. We will leave the mash-up open for the next few days to pick up any final stragglers and then I’ll do an analysis of the data and we’ll publish our final top 20.
Meantime, there are a lot of people who pitched in to make Ada Lovelace Day 2010 the success that it was:
Thanks to Stephanie Troeth and Stephanie Booth again for their continual support, help and inspiration...
Read more on Thank you!
