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Ada Lovelace Day is an annual event held on the second Tuesday of October to celebrate and raise awareness of the contributions of women to STEM fields. It is named after mathematician and computer science pioneer Ada Lovelace. It started in 2009 as a "day of blogging" and has since become a multi-national event with conferences. [1] [2]
The University of Oxford’s IT Services, Bodleian Libraries and Wikimedia UK are organising a series of Wikipedia events focused on women in science to celebrate Ada Lovelace Day. The fourth event, on Thursday 15 October, is focused on images. It will take place at IT Services on Banbury Road, Oxford, and will include training in wiki editing.
Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (née Byron; 10 December 1815 – 27 November 1852), also known as Ada Lovelace, was an English mathematician and writer chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's proposed mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine. She was the first to recognise that the machine had applications ...
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A high quality color vector file of the illustrious Ada Lovelace, the grandmother of computer science. The portrait is based upon a 19th century work of A. E. Chalon. Items portrayed in this file
Own work based on: Ada Lovelace.tif: Author: Original watercolor portrait (File:Ada lovelace.jpg): Alfred Edward Chalon; Woodcut-style graphic (File:Ada Lovelace.tif): Colin Adams, for the Ada Initiative; SVG conversion: Fred the Oyster; Other versions
11am-1pm - ‘No circumstance in the natural world is more inexplicable than the diversity of form and colour in the human race’ Join us to craft multi-coloured Ada Lovelace and Mary Somerville designs and make your own pin badges and laptop stickers 1pm-2pm Women in STEM snacks and talks. Dr. Melissa Highton on why we celebrate Ada Lovelace Day
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