Today is Ada Lovelace Day

Ada Lovelace Day was created by Suw Charman-Anderson to celebrate the contribution the women have made to technology. Suw asked 1000 other people to publish a blog post about a woman in technology that they admire and nearly 1700 have agreed to do this.
Ada Lovelace corresponded with Charles Babbage who developed the concept of the programmable computer in the early nineteenth century. "Today she is 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." (Wikipedia)
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