Today is Ada Lovelace Day, a day to celebrate women in in IT and technology. Ada Lovelace (1815-1852) was Lord Byron’s daughter – yes, that Lord Byron – and she was a truly exceptional woman. In a time when it was unusual, if not frowned on, for a woman to be involved in any serious intellectual pursuits, Lovelace was one of the first people in the world to see the potential of computers and write computer programs. And this all before Charles Babbage even built his “computer engine”.

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