Social Media Celebrates #AdaLovelaceDay
Watercolor portrait of Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (Ada Lovelace) Alfred Edward Chalon - Science & Society Picture Library Augusta Ada King, the Right Honourable the Countess of Lovelace, is considered to be the world's first computer programmer. She was a brilliant mathematical and scientific thinker. At age 12, Ada designed a steam-powered flight machine. Later, she significantly contributed to the design of Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine (the world's first computer), and wrote the world's first computer program--an algorithm for the Analytical Engine to compute Bernoulli Number. Each year, Finding Ada, a blog "celebrating the achievements of women in science, technology, engineering and maths," announces a day in mid-October to honor Lovelace's contributions to technology and celebrate women around the world who are involved in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). This year,...