Ada Lovelace Day: The international day of blogging to celebrate the achievements of women in technology and science. Ada Lovelace was a programmer, regarded as first programmer, living at the beginning of the 18th century. Programming language name Ada is derived from her.
As early as around 400 years A.D. Hypatia was doing her work as a scientist in the fields of mathematics, astronomy, philosophy.
Further reading: Deakin, Michael A. B. (Mar., 1994): Hypatia and Her Mathematics
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