If We Want More Ada Lovelaces, We Need to Empower Women

This week we celebrate Ada Lovelace, a woman from the 1800s who invented computer programming at a time when no one knew what a computer was

While her contributions are vast, I can’t help but imagine how much she may have impacted society had she been properly educated. And then I begin to think about how important it is to recognize the movements and groups that educate and offer opportunities to women.

Arduino and Raspberry Pi, for instance, are a single-board microcontroller and a single-board computer, respectively, that provide low-cost options to teach programming. Because of this access to computing materials, women have developed numerous applications and learned the craft of programmingImagine what women can develop when given resources of this caliber. Read more...