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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mediamolecule/4458941179/" title="Happy Ada Lovelace Day"><img src="http://www.mediamolecule.com/images/uploads/card.jpg" alt="Happy Ada Lovelace Day" width="648" height="864" /></a> Today is <a href="http://findingada.com/" title="International Ada Lovelace Da">International Ada Lovelace Day</a>! An international day of blogging to celebrate the achievements of women in technology and science. We’re fans of all those things here at Media Molecule so we had to join in the other thousands of blogs worldwide that are celebrating today. Not sure who Ada Lovelace was? Well, she’s most well known for writing what is considered to be the worlds first computer programme… <blockquote>Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace was born on 10th December 1815, the only child of Lord Byron and his wife, Annabella. Born Augusta Ada Byron, but now known simply as Ada Lovelace, she wrote the world?s first computer programmes for the Analytical Engine, a general-purpose machine that Charles Babbage had invented.<br/><br/> Ada had been taught mathematics from a very young age by her mother and met Babbage in 1833. Ten years later she translated Luigi Menabrea?s memoir on Babbage?s Analytical Engine, appending notes that included a method for calculating Bernoulli numbers with the machine ? the first computer programme. The calculations were never carried out, as the machine was never built. She also wrote the very first description of a computer and of software.<br/><br/> Understanding that computers could do a lot more than just crunch numbers, Ada suggested that the Analytical Engine ?might compose elaborate and scientific pieces of music of any degree of complexity or extent.? She never had the chance to fully explore the possibilities of either Babbage?s inventions or her own understanding of computing. She died, aged only 36, on 27th November 1852, of cancer and bloodletting by her physicians.</blockquote> <a href="http://andragy.posterous.com/" title="Andra Keay">Andra Keay</a> has made a rather nice presentation about Ada for today too: <div class="prezi-player"><style type="text/css" media="screen">.prezi-player { width: 648px; } .prezi-player-links { text-align: center; }</style><object id="prezi_kw1d4ysdujrw" name="prezi_kw1d4ysdujrw" classid="clsid27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" width="648" height="400"><param name="movie" value="http://prezi.com/bin/preziloader.swf"/><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"/><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"/><param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff"/><param name="flashvars" value="prezi_id=kw1d4ysdujrw&lock_to_path=1&color=ffffff&autoplay=no"/><embed id="preziEmbed_kw1d4ysdujrw" name="preziEmbed_kw1d4ysdujrw" src="http://prezi.com/bin/preziloader.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="648" height="400" bgcolor="#ffffff" flashvars="prezi_id=kw1d4ysdujrw&lock_to_path=1&color=ffffff&autoplay=no"></embed></object><div class="prezi-player-links"><a title="For Ada Lovelace Day, I wanted to share some of the fascinating story of the world's first computer; Charles Babbage, the genius engineer; and Ada Lovelace, the Enchantress of Numbers, mathematician, visionary and world's first coder. " href="http://prezi.com/kw1d4ysdujrw/ada-lovelace-for-schools/">Ada Lovelace (for schools)</a> on <a href="http://prezi.com">Prezi</a>

2010-03-24 11:30:00 Author: Spaff_Molecule Posts: 421

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Looks interesting! Il look into it more when i get a chance after work! Happy Ada Lovelace Day!!

2010-03-24 11:48:00 Author: Fenderjt Posts: 1969

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Boooooring. When is hulk hogan day? Needs more PUNCH!

2010-03-24 13:36:00 Author: BasketSnake Posts: 2391

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Does anyone know why it is Ada Lovelace Day specifically today?

2010-03-24 22:51:00 Author: mrsvista Posts: 755

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tl;dr That costume looks cool though, going to tell us when it comes out?

2010-03-24 22:54:00 Author: Doopz Posts: 5592

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its already out. its part of the history costume pack.

2010-03-24 22:55:00 Author: trip090 Posts: 1562

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its already out. its part of the history costume pack. :eek: Oh, one of few costume packs I don't have.

2010-03-24 22:59:00 Author: Doopz Posts: 5592

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Boooooring. When is hulk hogan day? Needs more PUNCH! I assume you're joking. Ada Lovelace could take on Hulk Hogan any day of the week.

2010-03-24 23:04:00 Author: microchirp Posts: 412

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Hulk hogan day is on sunday, Wrestlemania even though he isn't WWE any more.

2010-03-25 15:37:00 Author: robotiod Posts: 2662

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Does anyone know why it is Ada Lovelace Day specifically today? I believe it was a fairly arbitrary decision, made by a single blogger (http://www.pledgebank.com/AdaLovelaceDay).

2010-03-25 16:25:00 Author: Aya042 Posts: 2870

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Hulk Hogan? NOOOOO!!!! How about Mr T and Chuck Norris?

2010-03-27 01:22:00 Author: JspOt Posts: 3607

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