Happy Birthday, Lady Ada

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Happy Birthday, Lady Ada

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Did you see Google’s homepage today? Pretty cool ode to Ada Lovelace’s 197th birthday. Lady Ada is commonly known as the world’s first computer programmer. The Christian Science Monitor has a nice profile of her today entitled “The Enchantress of Numbers.” Happy birthday, Lady Ada.

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Stett Holbrook is editor of the Bohemian, an alternative weekly in Santa Rosa, California. He is a former senior editor at Maker Media.

He is also the co-creator of Food Forward, a documentary TV series for PBS about the innovators and pioneers changing our food system.

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