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I recently learned about this amazing woman, Ada Lovelace, credited with being "the first programmer" and this was in the mid-1800's! Ada is mainly known for having written a description of Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the analytical engine. She is today appreciated as the "first programmer" since she was writing programs — that is, manipulating symbols according to rules — for a machine that Babbage had not yet built. She also foresaw the capability of computers to go beyond mere calculating or number-crunching while others, including Babbage himself, focused only on these capabilities (from Wikipedia).

Here at Sun we support and recognize our women in technology. Some of our main groups are: the Sun Women Leadership Committee, Senior Technical Women's Network (STWN), Systers (a world-wide email alias for women in CS), Women In Technology International (WITI), Society of Women Engineers (SWE), and Grace Hopper.