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Ada Lovelace & keeping our WITS about us

Posted in Science and society, Women and science, tagged , on March 24, 2010 | 1 Comment »

March 24, 2010 –: when we honour Ada Lovelace, the ‘enchantress of numbers’ and the world’s first programmer. This year’s Ada Lovelace day (ALD10) –  when bloggers celebrate women in technology and science — falls in the week when Ireland’s national broadcaster began looking for the “greatest Irish person ever” .  . .  with not [...]

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No scientists on RTE’s greatest Irish shortlist??

Posted in Science and society, Women and science, tagged , on March 22, 2010 | 26 Comments »

Care to join me in organising a poll of the greatest Irish scientist? And let’s try and get a scientist on to RTE’s list for the greatest ever Irish person. RTE is asking us to vote for the greatest Irish person from a shortlist of 40 people.  The top five will then each become the [...]

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Sex, science and stereotypes

Posted in Policy, Science and society, Women and science, tagged , , on November 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Update: BBC Radio 4′s Moral Maze discussed the ethical issues on Nov 25th, listen here (until Dec 2nd) A week ago, if you’d asked someone to name a famous woman scientist, chances are they would have said Marie Curie.  Now, they’re more likely to name Brooke Magnanti. Magnanti, for those who missed the news, is [...]

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Celebrating women in technology

Posted in Women and science, tagged on March 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Ada Lovelace day this month (March 24th), celebrates women in technology, and remembers the ‘enchantress of numbers’  who wrote the software for Charles Babbage’s Victorian computer, and is regarded as the world’s first programmer. Among the women featured in Lab Coats and Lace, the new book which I edited for WITS, are three with a [...]

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