Ada Lovelace

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Today is ‘Ada Lovelace Day,’ a day that recognizes women working in science, technology, engineering, and math. We talk with Penny Rheingans, director of the Center for Women in Technology at the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, about how to draw more women into tech.

About two hundred years ago, the Romantic poet Lord Byron wrote a few lines about his young, estranged daughter, Ada Lovelace:

Is thy face like thy mother's, my fair child! 

Ada! sole daughter of my house and heart? 

When last I saw thy young blue eyes they smil'd,