From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.182.66.33 with SMTP id c1mr2858078obt.35.1418203643798; Wed, 10 Dec 2014 01:27:23 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.140.95.182 with SMTP id i51mr20545qge.12.1418203643771; Wed, 10 Dec 2014 01:27:23 -0800 (PST) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.glorb.com!peer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!h15no16644159igd.0!news-out.google.com!r1ni45qat.1!nntp.google.com!s7no5392215qap.1!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 01:27:23 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=86.151.206.97; posting-account=pmkN8QoAAAAtIhXRUfydb0SCISnwaeyg NNTP-Posting-Host: 86.151.206.97 References: User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <0e2c7d7a-5af6-434b-917b-86fac40ab928@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Happy Birthday Ada Lovelace From: Austin Obyrne Injection-Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 09:27:23 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Received-Bytes: 2613 X-Received-Body-CRC: 1376482964 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:23928 Date: 2014-12-10T01:27:23-08:00 List-Id: 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] > [2] > [3] > [4] > > (V20141210.1) I understand also that October 15th is set aside as a memorial day to her.? adacrypt