I contributed two entries to
The Ada Lovelace Day Collection of blogs in honor of yesterday’s
Ada Lovelace Day. About Ada:
Ada Lovelace was
born Augusta Ada Byron, she wrote the world’s first computer programs for
the
Analytical Engine, a mechanical general-purpose computer designed by
Charles Babbage in 1837.
The Ada Lovelace Day Collection blog project
overachieved its goal of collecting a thousand blog posts to draw attention
to women excelling in technology. The total count now is 1119 posts in
honor of women famous and private. The reasoning behind this project created by
Suw Charman-Anderson was:
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“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. Entrepreneurs, innovators, sysadmins, programmers, designers, games developers, hardware experts, tech journalists, tech consultants. The list of tech-related careers is endless.
Recent research by psychologist Penelope Lockwood discovered that
women need to see female role models more than men need to see male ones. That’s a relatively simple problem to begin to address. If women need female role models, let’s come together to highlight the women in technology that we look up to. Let’s create new role models and make sure that whenever the question ‘Who are the leading women in tech?’ is asked, that we all have a list of candidates on the tips of our tongues.”
The two entries I added to The Ada Lovelace Day Collection were
Savvy Geek Chix and Anita Borg (24 March 2009) and
Jeanie Treichel (13 March 2009).
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