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Ada Lovelace Day is an international day of blogging to draw attention to women excelling in technology. Women’s contributions often go unacknowledged, their innovations seldom mentioned, their faces rarely recognised. We want you to tell the world about these unsung heroines. Whatever she does, whether she is a sysadmin or a tech entrepreneur, a programmer or a designer, developing software or hardware, a tech journalist or a tech consultant, we want to celebrate her achievements.

Ada Lovelace was one of the world’s first computer programmers, and one of the first people to see computers as more than just a machine for doing sums. She wrote programmes for Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine, a general-purpose computing machine, despite the fact that it was never built.  She also wrote the very first description of a computer and of software.

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From The Guardian on 12/31/08:

One of the world’s leading computer scientists, Prof Wendy Hall, has been made a dame in the new year’s honours list for services to science and technology.

Speaking from Sydney, Hall said: “I’m absolutely thrilled. It’s a fantastic honour.

“When you look at the list there are only six dames and you realise just what an honour it is when you consider how few people have these.

“I’ve always been a team player and it’s a tribute to all the people I have worked with other the last few years. It’s them that enable you to get the honour.”

Hall, professor of computer science at the University of Southampton and former head of its school of electronics and computer acience, has influenced the subject’s development through her academic and research work as well as by playing a prominent role in science and technology policy.

Read the full story here.

The announcement cites Professor Hall’s many accomplishments, including being a founder of the Web Science Research Initiative, becoming the first female senior vice-president of the Royal Academy of Engineering, and her current position as president of the ACM.  See the University of Southhampton’s press release for additional details.

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