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Our Ada Lovelace Day special is among sixty worldwide events and, like so many of those science cabarets, cream teas, geek girl dinners, and gramophone discos, we have music and jokes to make it fun and inviting. (thanks to Helen Arney)
Ada Lovelace, from Sydney Padua’s comic book series.
Hydrogeologist Dr. Mary Jane Conboy and Ladies Learning Code‘s Melissa Sariffodeen join us to share their heroes while we explore the way Ada’s life story has found a cult status on the web.
I review Steve Jobs biographer Walter Isaacson’s new book, The Innovators, which opens and closes with Ada (thanks to Isaacson’s daughter being a Lovelace fan) and ask the What She Said trio for their thoughts on a new line of Ada Lovelace undies featuring tech women as their “real bodies” lingerie models.
