INTERNATIONAL DAY

CULTUR - CIVILISATION



INTERNATIONAL DAY







Ada Lovelace Day is an international day of blogging aimed at



drawing attention to women who excel in technology. Falling on 24th



March, this day highlights the fact that women's contributions in this



world often go unacknowledged.





Born in 1815, Lovelace is considered the first ever programmer. She



earned this accolade for writing a description of Charles Babbage's



early mechanical general-purpose computer, the analytical engine, a





task which involved the manipulation of symbols according to rules.



She also foresaw the possibility of computers to go beyond mere



calculation while those around her remained fixed on this capability.