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RainDog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-15-10 12:48 PM
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Take the Ada Lovelace Day pledge
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/02/15/take-the-ada-lovelac.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29

Ada Lovelace Day, 24 March 2010, is an international day of blogging to celebrate the achievements of women in technology and science. Women's contributions often go unacknowledged, their innovations seldom mentioned, their faces rarely recognised. Ada Lovelace Day aims to redress the balance by encouraging people to highlight the women who have inspired them.

Ada Lovelace:

Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (10 December 1815 – 27 November 1852), born Augusta Ada Byron, was an English writer chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the analytical engine. Her notes on the engine include what is recognized as the first algorithm intended to be processed by a machine; as such she is often regarded as the world's first computer programmer.
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tbyg52 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-15-10 12:57 PM
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1. Very cool! Hooray for Grace Murray Hopper as well!
:applause:

http://gracehopper.org/2010/about/about-grace-hopper/
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av8rdave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-15-10 01:05 PM
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2. Make sure this gets kicked next month!
A commemorative day I knew nothing about.

Thanks for posting!
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RainDog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-15-10 01:32 PM
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3. boing boing is seeking pledges from bloggers now
people who blog are saying they'll do this. I thought some of the DU bloggers might be interested.
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av8rdave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-15-10 01:35 PM
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4. Someday, I'll learn to blog if I can ever come up with anything worthwhile to say
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Laura902 Donating Member (333 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-15-10 02:32 PM
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5. Awesome!
i wish i could recommend 100 times! :D
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