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Today is Ada Lovelace Day, the day to celebrate the contributions of women toward technology and named in the honor of Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace who wrote the first computer program, a method for calculating Bernoulli numbers using Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine.

I knew who Ada Lovelace was, but had never seen her picture until this year when doing research for this post.  Somehow I had a more steam punk image of her looking somewhat like Amelia Erhard in jodhpurs and a leather jacket maybe even fighting a Cthulhu, not the Jane Austin type in her portrait. But as a regular of the court, Lorn Byron’s daughter, the wife of William King, 1st Earl of Lovelace and officially “The Right Honourable the Countess of Lovelace” she undoubtedly was more the Victorian lady than early 20th century aviatrix.

There is no reason for me to butch up the Countess of Lovelace in order for her to be a hero for programmers and women in tech.  I have 2 daughters both of whom excel at math and have also been known to sport a pink tutu on occasion.  Ada Lovelace is the perfect role model for the modern woman, as well as for  for every geek who needs to clean up nice once in a while.

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