Hello,

Last Tuesday, October 12, was Ada Lovelace Day. Many other artists shared their illustration of Ada Lovelace, as well as a short biography of her. I wanted to share mine as well.

As many said before me, she was a Mathematician and the first person ever to design a computer program when computers didn’t even exist, and at a time where it was often believed that women were only interested in “futile things”.

As a woman in science, Ada Lovelace represents a great role model for me and one of the proofs that women can excel in maths and computer science. I think it is a shame that I never heard of her up until a few years ago, not in highschool and not at the university… I only heard of her when I started to come upon the story of other women that played a great role too in the development of science. I hope schoolbooks will start telling her story and that of other women soon, if it’s not already the case.

This is the first illustration of a series about Women in Science, and about how successful collaborations between women and men resulted in leaps in technology.

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