Yesterday was Ada Lovelace Day. I recently heard about her in Godel Escher Bach, and through a RSS feed found out that yesterday was a day devoted to her. http://findingada.com
Ada Lovelace was the daughter of Lord Byron and was born on Dec. 10th 1815. She is often credited as being the first computer programmer, and was the first to describe both a computer and software.
She also realized that computers could be much more than a simple calculator, and that computers "might compose elaborate and scientific pieces of music of any degree of complexity or extent". Today, there is a programming language named after her. Ada Programming Language
The field of computing is full of very interesting thinkers and often thought of as very male-centric. It's interesting to find out that a woman was a strong figure in computing's earliest years.
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