A cou­ple of my Twit­ter con­tacts alerted me to this Pledge­Bank pledge by jour­nal­ist and blog­ger Suw Charman-Anderson:

“I will pub­lish a blog post on Tues­day 24th March about a woman in tech­nol­ogy whom I admire but only if 1,000 other peo­ple will do the same.”

Well, being a woman in tech­nol­ogy it’s hard not be inter­ested by the topic, and of course Ada King, Count­ess of Lovelace is one his­tor­i­cal char­ac­ter with a fair whack of geek cred. Being acknowl­edged as the first com­puter pro­gram­mer in gen­eral makes also being the first woman in com­put­ing seem kind of insignif­i­cant in com­par­i­son – which is the way it should be. I also have a niece named in her hon­our.

So who’s with me? March 24 is a fair way away, so you’ve got plenty of time to think of a woman in tech­nol­ogy who you admire. As one of the com­menters on the Pledge­Bank page said, it’s going to be hard to pick just one!

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