Press Coverage

We’ve had a lot of coverage this year, both from the mainstream media and bloggers, and several major news organisations took part in the day as well. Here’s a selection of  of articles. If you know of any media coverage that’s not listed, please let us know!

 Ada Lovelace Day 2012

• Ada Lovelace Day: A Celebration, Milena Popova, Open Rights Group, 16 Oct 12
• Ada Lovelace Day: Women celebrate female scientists, Zoe Kleinman, BBC News, 16 Oct 2012
• Ada Lovelace: Challenging women’s status in science, Dougal Shaw, BBC News, 16 Oct 2012
• Tuesday is Ada Lovelace Day: let’s celebrate inspirational women, Suw Charman-Anderson and Helen Arney, The Guardian, 13 Oct 2012
• Tech Weekly Podcast: Ada Lovelace Day: Where are the women in tech?, Aleks Krotoski, The Guardian, 16 Oct 2012
• Ada Lovelace Day 2012: Who is your Female Tech Hero?, Alistair Niederer, Huffpost Tech United Kingdom, 16 Oct 2012
• Lessons from Ada Lovelace for all women of the world, Shai Reshef, Huffington Post, 16 Oct 2012
• Celebrate Ada Lovelace Day, Rebecca Lyons Burdick, CNET, 16 Oct 2012
• Guest Blog, Jamie Ayre, Computer Business Review, 23 Oct 2012
• Quite contrary Somerville: Behind the Ada Lovelace legend, Dave Wilby, The Register, 16 Oct 2012
• The Geek Mom Book: Ada Lovelace, an early Geek mom, Jenny Williams, Wired, 22 Oct 2012
• A celebration of Ada Lovelace Day, David Cornish, Wired, 16 Oct 2012
• Ada Lovelace: My brain is more than merely mortal, Rowan Hooper, New Scientist, 16 Oct 2012
• Ada Lovelace Day 2012, Susana Polo, The Mary Sue, 16 Oct 2012
• Ada Lovelace Day 2012 arrives with worldwide celebrations, Women in Technology, 16 Oct 2012
• Ada Lovelace Day: Celebrating Technical Women Leaders with Women 2.0, Angie Chang, Forbes, 16 Oct 2012
• Ada Lovelace Day celebrates women in science, Rhian Waller, National Geographic, 16 Oct 2012
• Celebrate ‘Ada Lovelace Day’ and women in tech and science, Devin Coldewey, NBC News, 16 Oct 2012
• On Ada Lovelace Day, Celebrate some Extraordinary Women, Robyn Tippins, ReadWrite, 16 Oct 2012
• Happy Ada Lovelace Day! A collection of essays on gender and tech, Rebecca J Rosen, The Atlantic, 16 Oct 2012
• Happy Ada Lovelace Day!, Gemma Black, Cosmos Magazine, 16 Oct 2012
• Today We Celebrate a Woman Who Saw the Future of Computers, Smithsonian.com, 16 Oct 2012
• It’s Ada Lovelace Day!,
  Cambridge AWiSE, 16 Oct 2012
• A Podcast about interesting things, James O’Malley, The Pod Delusion, 21 Oct 2012
• Cerebral webcomic goes full steam, Paula Simons, Edmonton Journal, 17 June 2012
• World Celebrates Ada Lovelace Day, Helen French, PCR, 16th Oct 2012

XX Game Jam

• UK Sees It’s First Female Only Game Jam, Rachel Weber, Games Industry, 5th Nov 2012
• I’m at the XX Game Jam, A Great Becoming, 27th Oct 2012
• Overcoming the Odds With a Female Only Game Development Jam, Emily Gera, Polygon, 5th Nov 2012
• Ladies First: Inside the first ever women’s only game jam, Zoe Kleinman, BBC News, 5th Nov 2012
• XX Game Jam, BBC Click, 6th Nov 2012
• More coverage of the XX Gamejam can be found at http://xxgamejam.tumblr.com

Ada Lovelace Day Live

• Ada Lovelace Day Live!, WES
• Tuesday is Ada Lovelace Day: let’s celebrate inspirational women, Suw Charman-Anderson, Guardian, 13th Oct 2012
• Ada Lovelace Day, Professional Engineering 16th Oct 2012
• Female scientists celebrate Ada Lovelace Day, Statistics Views, 16th October 2012