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Today is Ada Lovelace Day

Posted March 24th, 2010 by lizardb0y

Apparently today is Ada Lovelace Day. I guess this makes it an ideal time to remember some of the women who have made enormous contributions to the IT industry.

Rear Admiral Grace Hopper immediately springs to mind as inventor of the compiler and the COBOL programming language. Rear Admiral Hopper was one of the original programmer of the Harvard Mark I in 1944. She continued contributing to the industry until her death in 1992 at the age of 85.

Another of my heroines of the computing era is Jeri Ellsworth a young and brilliant hardware hacker who created, amongst other things, the C-One reconfigurable computer and the C64 DTV TV Game. LifeHacker recently ran a series which included Jeri Ellsworth as "MacGyver of the day". Go read it and be amazed.

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