Ada Lovelace Day!
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):
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:
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brill! thank god she was saved from the wretched fate of poetry.
yay Ada, our very first cybergrrl.
Fantastic! But what is her Kryptonite…..?
Very very nice. Great idea.
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?
What a wonderful story! I am going to tell this to my 10-month old tomorrow
- Mom and CS Ph.D. student
Love it!
Nice!
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?
I so want to know more – and I love these drawings!
Brilliant!
love you humor and cartoons. Hope you give us more!
I volunteered to help in next years findingAda conference
Vicky
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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