Ada Lovelace Day (ALD) is celebrated on Tuesday, October 11.

Ada Lovelace Day (ALD) is an international celebration of women’s achievements in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Its aim is to raise the profile of women in STEM and, in doing so, create new role models that will encourage more young people to pursue STEM careers and support women who are already doing so.

Founded in 2009 by Suw Charman-Anderson, it is now held every year on the second Tuesday of October, during which women dedicated to STEM give short talks about their work or research in an informal theater-style setting.

But in the end, who was Ada Lovelace?

Born in 1815, Ada Lovelace collaborated with British inventor Charles Babbage on his general-purpose computing machine, the “Analytical Engine”. In 1843, Lovelace published what we would now call a computer program to generate Bernoulli numbers (a sequence of rational numbers used in number theory). While Babbage had written fragments of programs before, Lovelace’s was the most complete, the most elaborate, and the first to be published.

More importantly, Lovelace was the first person to foresee the creative potential of the “Analytical Engine”. She explained how it could do much more than simply calculate numbers, and could potentially create music and art, with the right programming and inputs. Her vision of the possibilities of computing was unmatched by any of her peers and went unnoticed for a century.

As a recent tribute, the blockchain Cardano coin is called “ADA”, in Lovelace’s honor.

At Suris Code, we join this international celebration and want to encourage more women to choose science and technology to empower their careers and unleash their creativity. That is why we invite female students with software development knowledge to learn about the benefits we can offer them.

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