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Ada Lovelace Day FAIL
Updated. I signed up for the Ada Lovelace Day pledge a few months ago, so I wrote a churlish, short, and ill-tempered blog post on the subject. (Since redacted.)
Among other things, I said, "I dislike the canonization of Ada Lovelace as a patron saint of women in computing. [...] Hundreds of thousands if not millions of women have written more code that mattered more for people's real lives than anything Ada Lovelace did. [...] Maybe instead of honoring Ada Lovelace, we need to honor these other women instead."
But on re-reading the pledge, I realized that I totally missed the point of Ada Lovelace Day, and that this is exactly what people are supposed to do.
Oops.
See #ald09 for some nice posts about women in computing.
Oh, and to pick a woman in technology I admire: Eve Maler, one of the co-creators of XML. I met her when she was chairing the SAML committee, and she led that group of competitive egos through some very difficult security and protocol design issues with great intelligence and diplomacy.
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