Ada Lovelace Day March 24
To commemorate some random day in Ada Lovelace’s life in which some amazingly great conversation occurred by which Ms. Lovelace invented all computers everywhere, March 24th has been designated Ada Lovelace Day by the Ada Lovelace Foundation.
Accordingly, we are all invited to post some bit of writing about a woman in technology whom we admire. Says tech-savvy feminist writer Suw Charman-Anderson:
— Suw Charman-Anderson
MMmmkay.
Well I signed up. Sometimes it’s nice to have an arbitrary deadline to do a piece of writing you wouldn’t have done otherwise. Also, Sterling’s doing it.
It’s kind of a no-brainer for me as to who I need to write about. No reward needed.
There’s a Facebook event page, #ALD09 is the Twitter hashtag, and AdaLovelaceDay09 is the tag for other services such as Delicious, Technorati, and so on.
i’ll Follow U Tuesday for a Twitter post today…
Hmmm… an era when women so often STFU and take a supporting role while the blokes like Babbage claim all the credit.
She deserves the recognition!
I come off flippantly, but I give mad props to Ada.
Ada Lovelace was Charles Babbage’s conspirator in ideas.
It’s good to recognize on this day not just the contributions of women, but the fact that expertise and inspiration don’t come from nowhere. Too often we try to ascribe breakthroughs to a single source, a “divinely inspired” being, when in truth most great advancements result from collaborations of forward-thinking people.
I’m not sure the analogy to Abigail and John Adams (and the interweaving friendships in Jefferson and Franklin) makes sense exactly, but that’s another great partnership that comes to mind.
Here’s to Ada, if it wasn’t for her I wouldn;t be typing this now!