Good Morning SuperForest!
Today is a very special day!
from findingAda.com:
“Ada Lovelace Day is an international day of blogging to draw attention to women excelling in technology.
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.”
Rad, we’re so in. And so are quite a few other folks. As of this posting, 1,875 blogs from around the globe have pledged to post about Ada Lovelace. And you can join us in the fun!
“To take part all you need to do is sign the pledge, pick your tech heroine and then publish your blog post any time on Tuesday 24th March 2009. It doesn’t matter how new or old your blog is, what gender you are, what language you blog in, or what you normally blog about – everyone is invited.”
Okay, here’s our post:
Good Morning SuperForest!
March 24th is the day we remember the extraordinary woman, Ada Lovelace.
Born in 1815, Ada was a bit of a mathematical genius. Highly ahead of her time. So ahead of her time that she wrote the first computer program 98 years before the first functional computer was made, in 1941. Ada was able to read the writings of a man named Charles Babbage, (who theorized that a machine could be created that could compute sums, store data, and receive and output data) and from his notes devise a method for using the machine to calculate a sequence of Bernoulli numbers. In no uncertain terms Ada Lovelace is the mother of modern computing, and today the blogosphere has united to hail her triumph.
(click the map to see where bloggers are posting from.)
Amazing. Today, keep in your thoughts the incredible contributions that women have made in science and technology.
And much love to All!
p.s. Is this inappropriate? It was the first thing that popped into my head when I sat down to write this post.
Mmmmmm. George Lucas, you sly devil.
Thanks to SuperForester Christine and spookoo for the heads up!
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