Ada Lovelace Day
Mar. 24th, 2009 10:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jinianAda Lovelace Day recognizes women in technology. (I wonder if the reason men don't need male role models isn't because there's no shortage of them, personally.)
I haven't seen her on my friends list yet, so please recognize the technological awesomeness of Rear Admiral Grace Brewster Murray Hopper, discoverer of the first insect "bug" in a computer and legendary balancer of checkbooks in octal (oops). Wim and I determined that to be a memorable scientist I ought to come up with something quirkily distinctive to do in lectures -- he remembered that Hopper used to pass out 1-foot lengths of wire to represent nanoseconds, and of course Sewall Wright and the guinea pig erasure are one of my favorite stories/legends/controversies.
I love that there is a ship named after her!
I haven't seen her on my friends list yet, so please recognize the technological awesomeness of Rear Admiral Grace Brewster Murray Hopper, discoverer of the first insect "bug" in a computer and legendary balancer of checkbooks in octal (oops). Wim and I determined that to be a memorable scientist I ought to come up with something quirkily distinctive to do in lectures -- he remembered that Hopper used to pass out 1-foot lengths of wire to represent nanoseconds, and of course Sewall Wright and the guinea pig erasure are one of my favorite stories/legends/controversies.
I love that there is a ship named after her!
