[Notice] Ada Lovelace Day 2015: Talk and Wikipedia edit-a-thon celebrating women in STEM
Short Version:
Ada Lovelace Day 2015 in Cambridge
Talk and Wikipedia edit-a-thon celebrating women in STEM
Time: Tuesday 13 October 2015: Talk from 18:00 | Edit-a-thon 19:30 – 22:00
Venue: The Centre for Computing History, Rene Court, Coldham’s Road, CB1 3EW
More info and FREE tickets: http://tiny.cc/
Long Version:
Ada Lovelace Day 2015 in Cambridge
Talk and Wikipedia edit-a-thon celebrating women in STEM
Tuesday 13 October 2015: Talk from 18:00 | Edit-a-thon 19:30 – 22:00
The Centre for Computing History, Rene Court, Coldham’s Road, CB1 3EW
More info and FREE tickets: http://tiny.cc/
Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, is widely regarded as the world’s first computer programmer, yet computing today is a male dominated field with typically 15%-20% women in the industry and taking higher computing qualifications.
In ‘Happy Birthday, Ada Lovelace: the first computer programmer’, a talk celebrating the 200th anniversary of Ada Lovelace’s birth, Professor Carron Shankland of the University of Stirling will explore the story of Ada Lovelace, how she got interested in computers, what computer she was programming, and her contribution to computing.
PLUS – Women in Science Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon
We aim to raise the visibility of inspiring women and other groups who are under-represented on Wikipedia through creating and editing articles, telling some great stories and learning a lot along the way. Help will be on hand to start editing, so bring your laptops and a sense of curiosity about women in science and related fields from Cambridge and beyond.
Places for this FREE event are very limited, the event is open to all but aimed at a 16+ audience. Book online at http://tiny.cc/
