This post is about Ada Lovelace as part of my pledge that “I will publish a blog post on Tuesday 24th March about a woman in technology whom I admire” so here my list list so far. Please if anyone is part of the groups that I have mentioned below please leave a comment allowing me to mention you by name as I really do genuinely admire and respect your contribution to the appreciation of technology. Or leave a comment about the women that I’ve accidentally left out 
Ada Lovelace
Ada lovelace (1815-1852) who is today appreciated as the “first programmer” since she was writing programs—that is, manipulating symbols according to rules—for a machine that had yet to be built. She also foresaw the capability of computers to go beyond mere calculating or number-crunching while others, focused only on these capabilities. I just love this demonstration of “stereotypical” female traits.
Ada was the only legitimate of the famous 18th Century poet Lord Byron and like her famous father died an early death but in both of their short live they left the world with eternal legacy’s.
This is a great post about her life
http://girlygeekdom.blogspot.com/2009/01/ada-lovelace-day.html
The women of the NCTAFE Learning Technology Team
The Learning Technology Team is a group of enthusiastic teachers at North Coast Institute of TAFE NSW. There are at least 20 of us working hard to implement and support the use of new and emerging technologies to make teaching, learning and assessment experiences more exciting and motivating for our learners. While there are male members of the team who’s contribution is very valuable the majority of the team are women and their contribution to the support and development of the use of new technology in the engagement of our students is extremely motivating to be part of.
Past and present students of Kingscliff TAFE
The journey that all our student take is amazing but I always personally love to see the personal growth that many of our female students experience.
Teaching staff at Kingscliff TAFE
The teaching staff at Kingscliff Tafe and particularly the teachers in the Information Technology section who always so go above and beyond in sharing their passion for IT with students are others that I admire.
If you admire women in Technology or want to promote the concept of Ada Lovelace day take the pledge here http://www.pledgebank.com/AdaLovelaceDay.