{"id":953,"date":"2009-03-24T19:09:44","date_gmt":"2009-03-24T19:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/ada-lovelace-day\/"},"modified":"2009-03-24T19:09:44","modified_gmt":"2009-03-24T19:09:44","slug":"ada-lovelace-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/ada-lovelace-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Ada Lovelace Day – #ald09"},"content":{"rendered":"

First, I’ll start out by saying I believe that Ada Lovelace is a myth and I’d rather honor Grace Hopper.  I did a paper on this and I have not seen any proof that Ada Lovelace wrote a computer program.  However, I know that Grace Hopper did. <\/p>\n

Yes, Ada Lovelace lived and yes, she knew Lord Byron and I haven’t seen anything definitive beyond that.  But I’ll let people have their myths.<\/p>\n

I’d rather have reality.<\/p>\n

There are lots of really cool women in technology who have done some really cool stuff.  I’ll start by honoring every high school CS teacher I know that turns kiddos onto technology. <\/p>\n

My heroes are and have always been the women who left teaching mathematics to help with computers and computing during World War II — Grace was only one of them.   I suspect it was a harder thing to do than we realize. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First, I’ll start out by saying I believe that Ada Lovelace is a myth and I’d rather honor Grace Hopper.  I did a paper on this and I have not seen any proof that Ada Lovelace wrote a computer program.  However, I know that Grace Hopper did. Yes, Ada Lovelace lived and yes, she knew […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}