Finding Ada: Our modern day tech heroines

Online, Productivity 24 March 2009 | 0 Comments

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It’s Ada Lovelace Day, and along with many others, I signed a pledge to blog about a personal technology heroine today.

Picking someone to blog about was a lot harder than I had expected. I didn’t want to look at historical women who, inspiring though they are, haven’t really made an impact on my choice of career. In fact, by their gender being notable, they perpetuate the image that it’s unusual to be a woman in the technology world. They are remembered less for their deeds than their chromosomes.

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