<story><title>Today is Ada Lovelace Day</title><url>http://findingada.com/ald-2012/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jgrahamc</author><text>My choice for an inspirational woman pioneer in the computing field would be Grace Hopper. Here she is on Letterman: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZOxtURhfEU&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZOxtURhfEU&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Today is Ada Lovelace Day</title><url>http://findingada.com/ald-2012/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>crntaylor</author><text>It&apos;s worth reading JGC&apos;s blog post about Ada Lovelace [1]. He argues that she shouldn&apos;t be famous for being &quot;the first computer programmer&quot; (in fact it&apos;s not clear that she ever really understood the difference engine/analytical engine at all).&lt;p&gt;Instead, he says that she should be remembered for being the first person to realize that calculating machines weren&apos;t limited just to problems of arithmetic - that they might eventually be applied to music, art and other areas. Very prophetic!&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.jgc.org/2011/09/lovelaces-leap.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.jgc.org/2011/09/lovelaces-leap.html&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>