Countess Augusta Ada Lovelace is considered the first computer programmer, inventing code for a machine that had not even been built yet. Known as "The Enchantress of Numbers", Lovelace devised a number-calculation...
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Tomorrow is Ada Lovelace Day, celebrating women in tech. The timing of this is good, since Dr. Barbara Liskov was just in the news for rocking the AM Turing Award. "Women’s contributions often go unacknowledged,...
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When I was given a chance to do a panel presentation at South by Southwest on being Just Over 50 and Not Dead Yet, one thing I sure did not want was to have 5 white guys talking. In the end it was 2 women and 3 guys. I don't consider myself an ubergeek.One thing I find...