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Happy Ada Lovelace Day!

adabookOctober 14 is Ada Lovelace Day, and a time to celebrate both the amazing Ada Lovelace herself and the achievements of all the women out there working in science, technology, engineering and math. If you missed it last year, The Atlantic had a greatĀ roundup of essays and other commentary on technology and gender here. To really read more about how itĀ all got started, check out the new book Ada’s Algorithm: How Lord Byron’s Daughter Ada Lovelace Launched the Digital Age by James Essinger, out now from Melville House Books. So here’s to Ada Lovelace, and all the women that followed her into tech!