https://community.element14.com/learn/events/c/e/762<div style="padding-bottom:5px;"><a href="http://i.imgur.com/6eJLP9C.png"><img alt="image" src="http://i.imgur.com/6eJLP9C.png" style="float:right;" /></a><span style="font-weight:bold;">In 1842, Ada Lovelace published what we now recognise as the first computer program.</span> It was written to calculate Bernoulli Numbers on Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine, a mechanical computing device that was never built.<span style="font-size:10pt;"> </span></div><div style="padding-bottom:5px;">But Lovelace did not only understand how Babbage's machine could carry out complex computations, she also imagined that, given the right inputs it could make music or graphics. Lovelace was way ahead of her time, to the point where even Babbage couldn't see the genius of her ideas.</div><div style="padding-bottom:5px;">So who was Ada Lovelace? How did she end up making one of the most impressive theoretical leaps of the last two hundred years? And why is she such an important figure for women in computing today?</div><div style="padding-bottom:5px;">Suw Charman-Anderson talks about Lovelace and her achievements, and why she has become the figurehead of a yearly celebration of women in science, technology, engineering and maths, Ada Lovelace Day.</div><div style="padding-bottom:5px;font-size:1.1em;font-weight:bold;">Presenter: Suw Charman-Anderson</div><div style="padding-bottom:5px;">Suw Charman-Anderson is the founder of Ada Lovelace Day, an international celebration of the achievements of women in science, technology, engineering and maths. She is also a social technologist and, as one of the UK’s social media pioneers, has helped clients worldwide use social tools for collaboration and communication internally and to build customer relationships externally. </div><div style="padding-bottom:5px;">A freelance journalist, she has written about social media and technology for The Guardian, CIO Magazine, .Net Magazine, Computer Weekly and FirstPost.com. She currently blogs about publishing and crowdfunding for Forbes.com.</div><div style="padding-bottom:5px;">In 2005, Suw co-founded the Open Rights Group with the aim of raising awareness of digital rights issues and campaigning against bad legislation in Britain and the EU.</div><div style="padding-bottom:5px;font-size:1.1em;font-weight:bold;">Find Out More</div><div style="padding-bottom:3px;">Link: <a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://findingada.com/" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank">http://findingada.com/</a></div><div style="padding-bottom:3px;">Twitter: <a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://twitter.com/findingada" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank">@findingada</a></div>en-USTelligent Community 12https://community.element14.com/learn/events/c/e/762Wed, 04 Sep 2013 20:17:29 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:f583e7ce-135d-461b-ba5a-0fb58d6d9daefustini<p>Nifty, that's my birthday! <span><a href="https://community.element14.com/resized-image/__size/16x16/__key/commentfiles/07eef79e70814fd2b5486cddd02e66b1-9eab2552-5ae5-49db-a9ad-5c78ab146b60/contentimage_5F00_1.png"><img alt="image" src="https://community-storage.element14.com/communityserver-components-secureimagefileviewer/commentfiles/07eef79e70814fd2b5486cddd02e66b1/9eab2552/5ae5/49db/a9ad/5c78ab146b60/contentimage_1.png-16x16.png?sv=2016-05-31&sr=b&sig=hDiN10YHRttMuAxNxdpvzNCwiV1jNO7%2BKPED6dqzGxs%3D&se=2026-05-06T23%3A59%3A59Z&sp=r&_=zGEM7pHL10Vt71gae75OdA==" style="max-height: 16px;max-width: 16px;" /></a></span></p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://community.element14.com/learn/events/c/e/762Thu, 24 Oct 2013 15:18:12 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:ddbbd5b7-03dc-48c1-9b95-a8ab31c6eff1Former Member<p>The title says "First Computer Programmer", but I think it's more accurate</p><p>to say "First Woman Computer Programmer".</p><p><a class="jive-link-message-small" href="https://www.element14.com/community/message/91593/l/re-happy-ada-lovelace-day-open-hardware-summit-superstars#91593">http://www.element14.com/community/message/91593#91593</a></p><div style="clear:both;"></div>