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http://blogs.sun.com/katysblog/date/20090325 Wednesday March 25, 2009

The Ada Lovelace Day Collection

I contributed two entries to The Ada Lovelace Day Collection of blogs in honor of yesterday's Ada Lovelace Day. About Ada: Ada Lovelace was born Augusta Ada Byron, she wrote the world’s first computer programs for the Analytical Engine, a mechanical general-purpose computer designed by Charles Babbage in 1837.

The Ada Lovelace Day Collection blog project overachieved its goal of collecting a thousand blog posts to draw attention to women excelling in technology. The total count now is 1119 posts in honor of women famous and private. The reasoning behind this project created by Suw Charman-Anderson was:

      "Women’s contributions often go unacknowledged, their innovations seldom mentioned, their faces rarely recognised. We want you to tell the world about these unsung heroines. Entrepreneurs, innovators, sysadmins, programmers, designers, games developers, hardware experts, tech journalists, tech consultants. The list of tech-related careers is endless.
      Recent research by psychologist Penelope Lockwood discovered that women need to see female role models more than men need to see male ones. That’s a relatively simple problem to begin to address. If women need female role models, let’s come together to highlight the women in technology that we look up to. Let’s create new role models and make sure that whenever the question 'Who are the leading women in tech?' is asked, that we all have a list of candidates on the tips of our tongues."

The two entries I added to The Ada Lovelace Day Collection were Savvy Geek Chix and Anita Borg (24 March 2009) and Jeanie Treichel (13 March 2009).

Posted at 10:34AM Mar 25, 2009 by katysblog in News & Reviews  |