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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]
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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 ...
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
Wikipedia pages can feel a tad lifeless without an image or short video to help illustrate it. We can change that. We can edit! Just have a look at the images and videos we have added to the University of Edinburgh library page by way of illustration! You can add pictures for use on Wiki-pages and beyond on Wikimedia Commons. Your Wikipedia ...
Dr. Seuss Enterprises is celebrating the iconic children's author's 120th birthday with a free giveaway of “The Cat in the Hat” to U.S. residents who have a baby born this March 2.
Given the success of our presentations at Wikimania and the need for more contributors to write about women and their works, Women in Red (WiR) is celebrating Ada Lovelace Day—12 October—with a round-the-clock online edit-a-thon.