Re: Happy Birthday Ada Lovelace

[Austin Obyrne <austin.obyrne@hotmail.com>]

On Wednesday, December 10, 2014 6:48:54 AM UTC, Dirk Craeynest wrote:
> Happy Birthday Ada Lovelace
> 
> Today, December 10 2014, is the 199th birthday of Augusta Ada Byron,
> aka Lady Ada Lovelace, recognised by many as the first programmer.
> 
> The programming language Ada was named in her honor.
> 
> I'd like to remind everyone that a promotional image combining the
> historical figure of Ada Lovelace and the programming language Ada
> is available at [1].
> 
> Useful to know is that an "Ada Mascot Competion" [2] is ongoing.
> It would be particularly fitting if some of the proposals would
> be based on a modernized Ada Lovelace image.  Not many programming
> languages have the name of the first female programmer... ;-)
> 
> Finally, remember that deadlines for submissions to several Ada
> events are upcoming: the Ada Developers Room [3] at FOSDEM 2015 in
> Brussels, and the Ada-Europe 2015 conference [4] in Madrid, Spain.
> Share your experience at an Ada event in 2015, the 200th anniversary
> year of Ada Lovelace!
> 
> Happy birthday, Lady Ada!
> 
> Dirk Craeynest
> Dirk.Craeynest@cs.kuleuven.be (for Ada-Belgium/Ada-Europe/SIGAda/WG9)
> 
> [1] <http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/pictures/ada-strong.html>
> [2] <http://www.gnoga.com/rebirth.html>
> [3] <http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/15/150131-fosdem.html>
> [4] <http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2015>
> 
> (V20141210.1)

I understand also that October 15th is set aside as a memorial day to her.?

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