Episode 21: Ada Lovelace Day Live!


Suw and Terence sat on the sofa.

I'm joined by Suw Charman-Anderson - powerhouse and founder of Finding Ada. 🔊 💾 Download this audio file. You can follow Finding Ada on Twitter and you can support the project on Patreon. If you'd like to have a chat with me - get in touch. 🎧 Stick this Podcast Feed into your podcatcher. 🍏 Subscribe on iTunes. 🎵 Intro music "Gran Vals" performed by Brian Streckfus. ⏱ Stopwatch Icon by Ilsur Aptukov from The Noun Project. 🄯 This podcast is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribu…

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Ada Lovelace Day 2012


Posthumous painting of Anning by B. J. Donne from 1847, based on the 1842 portrait, showing her pointing at an ammonite.

Last night, I attended Ada Lovelave Day Live. An inspirational and entertaining evening celebrating women in technology. One of the ways that people can get involved in Ada Lovelace day is be blogging about women in tech - I blogged in 2009 and 2010 but - to my shame - I didn't in 2011. So, here is a double post in penance :-) Mary Anning (21 May 1799 – 9 March 1847) First up, Mary Anning. I was in the British Museum yeasterday, they have a wonderful collection of fossils. The most i…

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Ada Lovelace Day 2010 - Rachel Armstrong


Ada Lovelace Day is ... ... an international day of blogging to draw attention to the achievements of women in technology and science. Women’s contributions often go unacknowledged, their innovations seldom mentioned, their faces rarely recognised. We want you to tell the world about these unsung heroines, whatever they do Last year I blogged about Delia Derbyshire and Helen Keegan. This year, it's... Rachel Armstrong I first met Rachel at BarCampAfrica UK. I thought she was barking m…

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Ada Lovelace Day


Suw and Terence sat on the sofa.

This post is for the amazing Suw for starting Finding Ada's Ada Lovelace day.Ada Lovelace Day is an international day of blogging to draw attention to women excelling in technology. Women’s contributions often go unacknowledged, their innovations seldom mentioned, their faces rarely recognised.I pledged to blog about one woman - I'm going to be slightly greedy and name two people.The first, representing the past, is Delia Derbyshire. So much has been written about her, that I shan't bother r…

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