Blog O' The Week Articles

“Blog O’ the Week” – or BOTW for the acronym inclined – is about finding the coolest blogs out there and having the luck (and/or audacity) to ask the owners a few questions and pray they write back. We will cover all types of famous, infamous, funny, heart-tugging and any that may capture your eye and have you tell us about it.

Blog O' The Week, Business, Cape Cod - Tuesday, March 24, 2009 12:06 - 1 Comment

Happy Birthday, Ada Lovelace!

2003-06-ada_lovelace Today is the birthday of Ada Lovelace, widely recognized as one of the first computer programmers. Her claim to fame was that she wrote programs for Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine, along with the very first description of a computer and software. Why is this of major importance? She was born in 1815, surely a time when women were not even considered to be a major force in science and technology. And in so far as successful women programmers or even women in tech, there are no Ada Lovelaces around in 2009 either.

Women in IT are a rarity in most cases; but instead of complaining about it, let’s be all intelligent women and think of ideas on how to pop the bubble of ignorance and how we can change the future of women in IT.

What we try to do with Geek Girl Camp is not just throw fun boot camps and events; we have an underlying commitment to education, scholarships for women and never leaving ANY woman behind who wants to learn more about technology. Some of the components of what we do (mostly anonymously) are here as follows:

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