Mar
24
2010
A very happy Ada Lovelace Day, in celebration of women in technology all over the world! For my post this year, I’d like to honour the many, many women in the early years of computing — the 40s, 50s and 60s in particular — who did so much of the behind the scenes work that [...]
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Mar
24
2009
As part of an international celebration of Ada Lovelace, the pioneering woman technologist and polymath, the daughter of poet Lord Byron and the very tolerant friend and admirer of the volatile Charles Babbage, I would like to salute not just one woman scientist or technologist but a whole bookful of Irish women. The book is [...]
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