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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. Whatever she does, whether she is a sysadmin or a tech entrepreneur, a programmer or a designer, developing software or hardware, a tech journalist or a tech consultant, we want to celebrate her achievements.
( some inspiration )
You can find out about Grace Hopper, the first woman to write a computer language compiler, and the first to promote programming using English words, here. Funny that Augusta Ada was the first to write a computer algorithm - the logic and language parts of the computing equation more so than the actual mechanics.
One day, I hope to see a scene like the above one myself. A room full of women, learning, talking about and building technology. It hasn't happened to me yet - I tend to have to put up with scenes like these, where the women are typically outnumbered 5-to-1.
So here's to the young women who are not believing the crap that IT is solely about sitting around building or programming widgets (although it's about that too, for the more engineering-minded), but it's the glue that holds modern communications, information processing and knowledge management (if that's not too hackneyed a term) together. Knowledge - knowing where to find it and where to apply it - is power.
( some inspiration )
You can find out about Grace Hopper, the first woman to write a computer language compiler, and the first to promote programming using English words, here. Funny that Augusta Ada was the first to write a computer algorithm - the logic and language parts of the computing equation more so than the actual mechanics.
One day, I hope to see a scene like the above one myself. A room full of women, learning, talking about and building technology. It hasn't happened to me yet - I tend to have to put up with scenes like these, where the women are typically outnumbered 5-to-1.
So here's to the young women who are not believing the crap that IT is solely about sitting around building or programming widgets (although it's about that too, for the more engineering-minded), but it's the glue that holds modern communications, information processing and knowledge management (if that's not too hackneyed a term) together. Knowledge - knowing where to find it and where to apply it - is power.