Emily Chang – Designer

I pledge that for Ada Lovelace Day I will publish a blog post on Tuesday, March 24th, 2009 about a woman in technology whom I admire.

Details:

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.

It doesn’t matter how new or old your blog is, what gender you are, what language you blog in, or what you normally blog about – everyone is invited to take part. All you need to do is sign up to this pledge and then publish your blog post any time on Tuesday 24th March 2009.

At the time of this posting, 989 people have signed up, 11 more needed. Why not make that you?

For ongoing updates about Ada Lovelace day:

http://twitter.com/FindingAda

http://findingada.com/

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/findingada

Who was Ada?
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 programs 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. More about Ada Lovelace at Wikipedia…

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