The second Tuesday in October has been selected as Ada Lovelace Day -- a time for celebrating that pioneering woman and all women in STEM.
Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, better known as Ada Lovelace (December 10, 1815–November 27, 1852) -- and daughter of the poet Lord Byron -- is celebrated as the world’s first computer programmer, the first person to combine the mathematical capabilities of computational machines with the poetic possibilities of symbolic logic (applied with clever imagination). (Many more biographical details may be found at this link.) And here is a link to an interesting article by Johns Hopkins voice Meghana Ravi entitled "Ada Lovelace found poetry in computer algorithms."
I have posted poetry about Ada Lovelace several times in this blog; here is a link to those past postings. The following poetic words -- by Ada Lovelace -- concerning translation of mathematical principles into practical forms -- were first posted back in September of 2015.
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