Ada Lovelace Day

It was absolutely fantastic yesterday to visit Parliament for the Westminster Hall Debate on Ada Lovelace Day and government support for women in STEM, which was organised by the fabulous Lizzi Collinge MP. It truly was an honour to hear so many MPs speak in support of women in STEM and of Ada Lovelace Day, and to have my own work recognised in Parliament. My thanks to all the MPs who attended and especially to those who spoke. It was also a delight to meet Samantha Niblett MP in person at last, and to have a very positive conversation with my own MP, Matt Rodda, about how government might work more closely with organisations such as Ada Lovelace Day. If you'd like to read through the speeches, you can do so here: https://lnkd.in/ekAMyk6x Or you can watch them here: https://lnkd.in/e-kBfCa8

That's it for Ada Lovelace Day 2025! I hope you've enjoyed this journey deep into our archives! But, what's the future for Ada Lovelace Day? How can we evolve to better serve women in STEM? We'd love to hear your thoughts and ideas. https://lnkd.in/e-8Xu4q6 #ALD25

Podcast: Geologist Hazel Gibson talks about geoscience cognition and communication, and Dr Erik Klemetti tells us about the work of vulcanologist Professor Anita Grunder. https://lnkd.in/eEVJpsqA #ALD25

Happy Ada Lovelace Day! In the 1800s, Charles Babbage developed engines that manipulated numbers. He understood his Analytical Engine could handle algebra, plus, minus, mathematical operations. Numbers representing quantity. Machines conceived for calculation. Ada saw something else entirely. She realised that numbers could represent things other than quantity. Letters. Musical notes. Any symbols at all. Which meant a machine that manipulated numbers could actually manipulate symbols, with number being just one type of symbol among many. 💭 "The engine might compose elaborate and scientific pieces of music of any degree of complexity," she wrote in 1843, in her notes to Babbage’s Analytical Engine. Once you can encode something as symbols and define rules for manipulating those symbols, the machine can work with anything. That shift from number cruncher to symbol manipulator is the leap from calculation to computation. From a very good calculator to a general-purpose computer to AI art. ⏳ It took a woman to imagine it, and more than a century for the world to see this. Read more: https://lnkd.in/ev4kAzze #AdaLovelaceDay #AIart #AICreativity #WomenInSTEM #WiM25 The Foundation For Science and Technology, Cambridge Industrial Innovation Policy, Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge

Today is Ada Lovelace Day, an international celebration of the achievements of #WomeninSTEM. Ada Lovelace is considered by some to be the first computer programmer and was the first to recognize that Charles Babbage's proposed Analytical engine had applications beyond pure calculation. Although Lovelace tragically passed away at the age of 36, her work has lived on for over 100 years. We celebrate by presenting a roadmap, written by female scientists and engineers, that highlights women's achievements in applied physics: https://ow.ly/fU8Y50X85gp

Young Women Engineers Make Prestigious National Final To celebrate Ada Lovelace Day, five trailblazing young from across aerospace, transport, the built environment, and tech have been named as finalists for the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) Young Woman Engineer of the Year Awards 2025. These esteemed engineering industry awards honour women working and breaking boundaries in modern engineering. These women are also working to help change the perception that engineering is predominantly a career for men by diminishing outdated engineering stereotypes of hard hats and dirty overalls. This year’s awards finalists include Jennifer Barry, Amy Louise Dillon CEng MICE, Rachel Donaghey, Rachel H. and Nikkala Pokojski...READ MORE ON THE MEM WEBSITE HERE >>> 👉 https://lnkd.in/e6RN2a8x #Engineering #Technology #Awards

More Passion for Science: Journeys Into the Unknown shines a light on women's stories, from the derring do of the Air Transport Auxiliary in WWII, to the rigorous physical and psychological testing of Mercury astronaut hopefuls. Read more: https://lnkd.in/eCrB8bFj #ALD25