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pIt’s a href=”http://findingada.com/”Ada Lovelace Day/a, and Adafruit Industries is featuring one woman in technology per hour on their a href=”http://www.adafruit.com/blog/”blog/a. So far we’ve seen a href=”br /
http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2010/03/24/natalie-jeremijenko-social-robotics-24-hours-of-lady-ada-lovelace-day-ald10/”Natalie Jeremijenko/a, Core-contributor a href=”http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2010/03/24/bethany-shorb-neckwear-designer-24-hours-of-lady-ada-lovelace-day-ald10/”Bethany Shorb/a, a href=”http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2010/03/24/fiona-raby-design-noir-24-hours-of-lady-ada-lovelace-day-ald10/”Fiona Raby/a, a href=”http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2010/03/24/kelly-dobson-machine-therapy-24-hours-of-lady-ada-lovelace-day-ald10/”Kelly Dobson/a (pictured above, performing machine therapy) and many more!/p

pAda Lovelace, whom the holiday commemorates, was one of the first computer programmers:blockquote Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (10 December 1815 – 27 November 1852) was one of the world’s first computer programmers, and one of the first people to see computers as more than just a machine for doing sums. She wrote programs for Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine, a general-purpose computing machine, despite the fact that it was never built. She also wrote the very first description of a computer and of software./blockquote/p

pLearn more a href=”http://findingada.com”here/a and a href=”http://www.adafruit.com/blog”here/a. /pa href=”http://www.core77.com/blog/technology/ada_lovelace_day_24_hours_of_women_in_technology__16248.asp”(more…)/a
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