Ada Lovelace day celebrates women in IT

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Barbara Liskov – This noted academic was recently the second woman to win the Turing Award, for her developments in software development and languages, after Frances Allen picked it up in 2006. The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) said: “Her legacy has made software systems more accessible, reliable, and secure 24/7.”

Wendy Hall – How much time do you have? The professor was recently awarded the Order of the British Empire and has previously served as Head of the School of Electronics and Computer Science at Southampton University. She also helped found the Web Science Research Initiative alongside Sir Tim Berners-Lee. Dubbed the First Lady of Web, she’s helped develop the ideas behind the semantic web, and is the first non-American to run the ACM.

Diane Bryant – The vice president and chief information officer at a little firm called Intel, Bryant also holds four patents.

Sue Black – Dr Black heads up the Information and Software Systems at the Harrow School of Computer Science at Westminster, and has also started up the BCS women specialist group. At present, she’s among the staunch supporters leading the charge to save Bletchley Park.

Caterina Fake – Flickr, you may have heard of it? Fake is one of the founders of the popular photo site, which has since been bought up by Yahoo. She now sits on the Creative Commons board.

Suw Charman-Anderson – One of the co-founders of Open Rights Group, Charman-Anderson is a blogging expert and the person behind Ada Lovelace Day – so let's definitely celebrate her today.

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