Ada Lovelace Day 2015 at Hofstra University, Hempstead, N.Y.

Ada Lovelace Day speaker for October 13, 2015 will be Danielle Horowitz, the 2005 Computer Science major who graduated from Hofstra University in 2005.  Ms. Horowitz will be working with visiting high school students in the morning and then giving a talk to the general Hofstra community in the afternoon.

While Dani was a student at Hofstra she started the website Daniweb, and it became her full-time job after she graduated.  It is so successful that Dani is often a guest speaker at conferences and meetings in greater New York area and beyond, sharing her expertise in Search Engine Optimization (SEO).   DaniWeb.com has developed into a thriving online community of over 1 million IT professionals and 10 million visitors a month, making it not only one of the largest social media websites in its niche, but also one of the largest publications on the Web to date.