To Ada Lovelace, mathematician, pioneer computer programmer. From Penny Andrews.


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Dear Ada Lovelace,

You taught me that women could be involved in technology and do inventive things and that being creative wasn’t incompatible with understanding how things work - even if the men usually get the credit.

I went to uni at 28 and got an IT degree, then a Masters and now I’m doing a PhD.

Trying to get stuff done before the evil robots / evil algorithms take over the world.

Cheers!

Penny


About Ada Lovelace

mathematician, pioneer computer programmer. Born 1815, died 1852. More information about Ada Lovelace.

Received June 9, 2016.
Published August 31, 2016.