If you ’re a girl who likes scheduling , who are your role models ? Too few and far between , state UK - based freelance software advisor and tech blogger , Suw Charman - Anderson . Which is why she ’s named March 24 , 2009 , Ada Lovelace Day , the first of what could become an annual Internet event .
Ada Lovelace Day is mean to be an international day of blogging to highlight women in technology " “ more than 1000 people have pledged to write a web log post today center on fair sex and their contribution to technology . Charman - Anderson call off for the dayafter observing the feelings of disempowerment experienced by her distaff friends in the technical school industry , and after recent inquiry read that women need to see positive female office models more than men take to see manly role model .
The day was named after Ada Lovelace , girl of the poet Lord Byron and the Countess of Lovelace , who is considered the world ’s first computer programmer .
Born in 1815 , Lovelace ’s puerility was spend largely separated from her famous father and bedridden with a series of life sentence - threatening illnesses . Through those illness , Lovelace continued her teaching and by the time she was 17 , her singular numerical abilities commence to come forth . All the while , she was a veritable Georgian gentlewoman , who enjoyed saltation , was often at Court and was view magical by many who play her .
It was through her human relationship with Charles Babbage , philosopher , mathematician , and the inventor of the Difference Engine and the Analytical , that her true numerical adept shined . The two engine , which sadly remained on - paper concepts or half - finished strong-arm attempts during Babbage ’s lifetime , were basically the first programmable computers . Lovelace wrote an algorithm that would calculate Bernoulli numbers " “ a series of rational Book of Numbers " “ for the Analytical Machine , making her the world ’s first computer programmer .
Lovelace croak in 1852 , at the age of 36 , of uterine cancer , and until relatively recently , her impingement on mathematics had been somewhat neglect . If Ada Lovelace Day takes off , however , modern female pioneers in the populace of technology , like Lovelace , wo n’t be dismiss for tenacious .
Being " in technology" is defined loosely as doing anything that involves using tech in an advanced or creative way , and is certainly loose to interpretation . Thus far , Ada Lovelace Day has managed to progress to some jolly towering blog , includingIan Douglasof theTelegraph , Naomi Alderman’sblog at theGuardian . And of course of instruction , mental_floss .
Any ladies in engineering require to weigh in ? Anyone you ’d wish to cast the twinkle of wonderment on today ?
