Today is Ada Lovelace day! If you’re not familiar with Lovelace, she was a 19th century writer and mathematician who was hugely influential in the design and development of Charles Babbage’s analytical engine, which would have been the world’s first computer had Babbage ever been able to find the cash to build it. (She also happened to be the poet Lord Byron’s only daughter, although she never knew him.) Lovelace’s work on the analytical engine was arguably just as important as Babbage’s, and her notes as to using the machine to process an algorithm that would calculate a series of Bernoulli numbers (a mathematical sequence that you can read more about here if you’re interested) means that she has the distinction of creating the world’s first computer program. In honor of Lovelace and the day devoted to remembering her work, here are five other women who’ve been massively influential in traditionally male-dominated fields. … Read More