Ada Lovelace Day is an international day of blogging to celebrate the achievements of women in technology and science. Ada Love Lace was the mother of computer programming back on 1850, being the first to develop the algorythms for Babbage's computing machine.
The first Ada Lovelace Day was held on 24th march 2009 and was a huge success. It attracted nearly 2000 signatories to the pledge and 2000 more people who signed up on Facebook. Over 1200 people added their post URL to the Ada Lovelace Day 2009 mash-up. The day itself was covered by BBC News Channel, BBC.co.uk, Radio 5 Live, The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Metro, Computer Weekly, and VNUnet, as well as hundreds of blogs worldwide.
In 2010 Ada Lovelace Day will again be held on 24th March and the target is to get 3072 people to sign the pledge and blog about their tech heroine.
SIGN THE PLEDGE!!
Pledge
I promise to publish a blog post about a woman in technology or science whom I admire on Ada Lovelace Day, 24th March 2010.
http://findingada.com/
