Tomorrow, 24th March, is Ada Lovelace Day: "an international day of blogging to celebrate the achievements of women in technology and science". The idea is that as "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 they do."
There already is a thread here on Brilliant women you admire, which is great, but I wanted to highlight this so that people could act on it quickly. Here's mine from last year.
Wondering who Ada Lovelace was? Awesome, that's what - amongst other things, she also wrote the very first description of a computer and of software - back in the first half of the 19th century, that is.