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As part of an international celebration of Ada Lovelace Order adipex, , 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 the newly published Lab Coats and Lace: the Lives and Legacies of Inspiring Irish Women Scientists and Pioneers, Utah UT , Georgia GA Ga. , edited by well known science journalist and broadcaster Mary Mulvihill. I just received my copy and there's a fantastic assortment of essays in the book, buy adipex, Cheapest adipex online, which is a companion to Stars, Shells and Bluebells (also on Irish woman scientists) and targeted at secondary school students but a good read for anyone, αγοράζουν φτηνά adipex. Adipex generic, As one of the goals of Ada Lovelace Day is to celebrate women in science and encourage girls to consider such a fascinating career themselves,  the book is especially appropriate, cheap adipex overnight delivery. Arkansas AR Ark. , On a more personal note, I was lucky enough to be asked by Mary to contribute a chapter to the book on a woman I actually met a few years back, cheapest adipex, Adipex ordine on-line, the charming and feisty Donegal-born Kathleen "Kay" McNulty Mauchly Antonelli, who passed away in 2006, New Hampshire NH N.H. . I'd like to make her my main tech woman to highlight for Ada Lovelace Day, order adipex. Købe adipex online, Kay was one of the group of very bright, steadfast women who were the world's first computer programmers, billiga adipex apotek, Acheter en ligne adipex, tasked with programming ENIAC,  a WWII-era behemoth the size of a train car now credited with being the world's first electronic computer, Massachusetts MA Mass. . Kjøpe adipex online, With most of the men off fighting, it was women maths graduates like Kay McNulty who were brought in to figure out how to get a computing machine to run its problems, buy adipex online without prescription. Köpa adipex, Recognition of their  contributions came very late -- only in the past decade, and even then, adipex, Colorado CO Colo. , begrudgingly. At one of the major anniversary celebrations of  ENIAC, North Dakota ND , Halvalla adipex apteekki, Kay was invited not in her own right as one of that pivotal group of women programmers (women who invented some of the basics of programming and two of the first programming languages), but as the widow of John Mauchly, order adipex from canada, Buy adipex pills, who along with J. Order adipex, Presper Eckert invented  ENIAC and created one of the first computer companies after the war.

Kay McNulty came back to Ireland several years ago and gave a wonderful, adipex pills, informal talk on her time working on ENIAC and some of the politics of the time, as well as some punchy views of what it was like to be a woman working in a very male dominated field. Fortunately things have changed for the better, and girls today who are interested in science and  technology can look to role models like Kay McNulty and all the other fascinating women in Lab Coats and Lace. And of course, to Ada Lovelace herself.

You can see a neat mashup showing the location of posts made to celebrate Ada's day here (though it doesn't seem to be updating!). Disclaimer: Just in case anyone is wondering, I don't make any dosh at all on the sale of this book. :).

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