Ada Lovelace Day!

sydney March 24th, 2009

As usual I’m a bit overcommitted at the moment with Things That Seemed Like a Good Idea At the Time.. my drinking buddy Suw came up with some cockamamie scheme for Ada Lovelace Day, and next thing I know I’m doing this (click on the image if, god help you, you want to see it larger):

lovelace comic page one

The goal of this worthy enterprise is to celebrate women in technology… corrupted by myself to the goal of fooling around. Ada Lovleace, as I’m sure you all know, came up with the first theoretical program for the first imaginary computer, thus ushering in the Age of Steampunk making her an inspiration for all us girls messing around on computers in later centuries!

Insanely I actually have a few pages of this but to get in under the wire of The Day Itself I’m posting that up for now.

Teaser for the NEXT THRILLING EPISODE:

ada lovelace

16 Responses to “Ada Lovelace Day!”

  1. # Arrowon 24 Mar 2009 at 10:59 pm

    brill! thank god she was saved from the wretched fate of poetry.

    yay Ada, our very first cybergrrl.

  2. # Terence Edenon 24 Mar 2009 at 11:03 pm

    Fantastic! But what is her Kryptonite…..?

  3. # planetheidion 25 Mar 2009 at 12:15 am

    Very very nice. Great idea.

  4. # Stephen Peterson 25 Mar 2009 at 2:29 am

    That’s weird. Rosa Peter, the mathematician woman I wrote about today, ditched math for poetry and then later returned to math. Was this a trend?

  5. # Umaon 25 Mar 2009 at 2:33 am

    What a wonderful story! I am going to tell this to my 10-month old tomorrow :)

    - Mom and CS Ph.D. student

  6. # Ceridwenon 25 Mar 2009 at 3:54 am

    Love it!

  7. # Poetry News For March 25, 2009 | Poetry Hut Blogon 25 Mar 2009 at 5:01 am

    [...] Only 1 thing can subdue poetry! [...]

  8. # Ankiton 25 Mar 2009 at 5:36 am

    Nice!

  9. # Snell-Pym » Ada Lovelace Day - A Reviewon 25 Mar 2009 at 10:00 am

    [...] has even been a webcomic produced for the [...]

  10. # Jemimahon 25 Mar 2009 at 11:11 am

    This is about the best combination i can think of. Geek ladies, comic books and a fantastic artist!

    *click!**click!* and W00t!

    When’s the next episode? Does that scoundrel Babbage turn up too?

  11. # LiBlog : Ada Lovelace Dayon 25 Mar 2009 at 11:42 am

    [...] and scientific pieces of music of any degree of complexity or extent.” I particularly like this post about Ada Lovelace, by cartoonist Sydney [...]

  12. # Johnnymachineon 25 Mar 2009 at 12:26 pm

    I so want to know more – and I love these drawings!

  13. # Noodledaddyon 25 Mar 2009 at 3:11 pm

    Brilliant!

  14. # A Week After Ada Lovelace Day (ALD09) — Climb to the Starson 01 Apr 2009 at 9:38 am

    [...] of the creations for this day, go and look at Sydney Padua’s web comic about Ada Lovelace, part 1 and part 2. I guarantee you’ll like [...]

  15. # vicky makrsteinon 08 Apr 2009 at 12:40 am

    love you humor and cartoons. Hope you give us more!

    I volunteered to help in next years findingAda conference

    Vicky

  16. # Jack Moravaon 28 May 2009 at 12:15 pm

    If you’re not already aware of `The Difference Engine’ by Bruce Stirling & William Gibson, cf eg

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Difference_Engine

    then you might enjoy it…

    (:+{)}

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