From BoingBoing:
March 24th is Ada Lovelace Day.
All you have to do is pledge to post on your blog something about a woman in science or in technology on that day.
Heck, as a doc (when only 6% of women were doctors), I figure I do that every day.
Ah, but who is Ada Lovelace, you ask?
She was the mother of the computer,
From Wikipedia:
Augusta Ada Byron, was an English writer chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the analytical engine. Her notes on the engine include what is recognized as the first algorithm intended to be processed by a machine; as such she is often regarded as the world's first computer programmer.
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