Celebrating Ada Lovelace Day
Today is Ada Lovelace Day, an “international day of blogging to celebrate the achievements of women in technology and science,” named for Ada, as she is widely known—the first computer programmer.
There are many women in the PopTech network creating amazing work in science and technology, leading the way; we are highlighting three today:
Neri Oxman is an architect with a design approach inspired by nature and using computational generation and material engineering to explore form. She thinks laser cutters are feminine and spoke at PopTech 2009, asking her crucial question: what does a material want to be?
Laura Kurgan is the Co-Director of the Spatial Information Design Lab (a “think-and-action-tank”) at Columbia University, where she visualizes complex political and social data to advocate for social reform. She told PopTech 2009 why there is no such thing as a neutral map and ways data can be repurposed:
Carolyn Porco, leader of the Imaging Science Team on the Cassini mission to Saturn, talked at PopTech 2005 about the storms on Saturn that die by merging, wondering what energizes the winds, and how particles in the rings of Saturn are sometimes the size of houses:
Who are your favorite women working in science and technology?
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