Ada Lovelace Day is an international day of blogging to draw attention to women in technology.

Here's Ada's bio:

Ada Lovelace -- mathematician, computer pioneer

b. December 10, 1815
d. November 27, 1852)


Ada Augusta Byron was the only legitimate child of the Romantic poet, George Gordon, Lord Byron. Her mother was Anne Isabella Milbanke who took the baby at one month old away from her father's home. Ada Augusta Byron never saw her father again; he died when she was eight.

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