Ada Lovelace: The Original Woman in Tech | Zoe Philpott | TEDxBucharest

[@vela5074]

Her story inspired me too... I am now a chemist and computer scientist 💖 She is such a legend 💞

[@theeartsee6622]

I am related to her btw. :) Shes in our family tree.

[@Tobiasberger]

Wow

[@dilex123explorations]

Wow ,do you have the programming and mathematics gene as well?

[@LastMomentMan]

Wow

[@DsgSleazy]

You’re also related to Edward I or Charlemagne, so what.

[@bawili]

After watching this and the amazing story of Bertha Benz, I realize that women have this incredible sense of seeing application in tech! Absolutely amazing talk! Thank you.

[@shavindadissanayake9345]

Ada Lovelace is a great intellectual who is undervalued in the Victorian patriarchal culture. She viewed the capacity of the Analytical Engine beyond its numbering and calculating, she saw the first computer programming system within it. She surpassed Babbage due to her ability to see a complex computing system in the codes of Analytical Engine. She is ahead of the era. She deserves the gratitude as the first computer programmer.

[@ionbucur2416]

@Franky Hathaway thats really not what he meant, I don't actually know how you got this conclusion

[@theeartsee6622]

Im related to her. I can take a blood test but we have her on our family tree :)

[@SuzLa1]

I was watching a video on facebook of a woman who'd had a lung transplant, and every online comment section no matter what the subject has at least one man who uses it as an excuse to be abusive about women. He was saying that men invented lung transplants and women shouldn't have equal pay. I said to him: In my country in England, before women were allowed into university, Florence Nightingale is seen as a founder of modern nursing. We even had her on our bank notes and named Covid wards after her. I think you have abuse issues and need to get offline and get a life, as nobody cares what you say online either. Maybe I should have told him about Ada Lovelace too, as no doubt he says the same on computing pages.

[@paytonalexzander7390]

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[@creedriley1578]

@Payton Alexzander instablaster ;)

[@ajayrawat-gz5yo]

We have statute of women in India for sure, brave women from history.

[@St__Y]

The story of women haven’t missed at all. Agreeing with that Ada was pioneer of software and algorithm, any historical woman and their achievement haven’t been undervalued.

[@MediaNSTEM]

We at NSTEM encourage girls and women to become interested in STEM fields. What an incredible story of courage and intelligence of that of Ada Lovelace. The fact that 14% of tech jobs are taken by women is staggering and dismal. We like the saying "My ambition should be rather to be great than to be thought so."

[@peterdollins3610]

Ada did more than write the first competent computer programme friend bottom, she was the first to conceive and figure out Babbage's machine's possibility to be a Universal Machine then influenced Alan Turing, remember him? See the great film 'The Imitation Game.' I will write a play later around her as she is amazing. Daughter of Byron friend of Babbage and that galaxy of geniuses made the First Industrial revolution in the world. Now if Faraday had agreed to be her friend as Babbage pressed him might we have had an electric computer 150 years or more ago? Who knows. Not me mate. Peter L. Dollins.

[@SuzLa1]

There's a man who uses every youtube comment section no matter what the subject to whine on about how much he hates women. He was using a medical page to say that as men invented lung transplants, women shouldn't have equal pay. Not seeing the irony that women wanted equal pay to not be trapped with men like him. I told him that in my country, Florence Nightingale is seen as the founder of modern nursing, before women were allowed into university, and she's so admired she was on our money. Maybe I should have reminded him about Ada Lovelace, as no doubt he's on a computing video foaming at the mouth about how women didn't have anything to do with computing.

[@AnnaGretaGiannotti]

thanks for existing Ada

[@wimd6424]

One of the largest cryptocurrency projects (cardano) uses the "ADA" as a means of paying for transactions. As a sign of appreciation for her work

[@derhampaul2182]

She's got a point were are the women statues

[@muskangupta1977]

What an amazing talk! Impressed and agreed on every word she spoke♥️

[@valmid5069]

“Oh Ada, you don't need a preview. You'll figure it out before anyone. The first to see the potential in things like that, to work out what could be. What they can really do. Computers start with you. Sweet dreams, Ada Lovelace...” -Dr. Who

[@kawaiikittypotter]

This was great to watch! Ada Lovelace is truly an inspiration to me. Glad I chose her to write a biography on! :))

[@kawaiikittypotter]

@Dexter Vortex Sungte No, I chose her because I heard a little bit about her in my computer's class last semester. I thought I should get to know her more, so I wrote a biography about her. Yes, you are right. There are other people who made incredible contributions to technology and who I could have chosen. But the past is in the past, and the present is now. I'm interested in technology, so I might as well write a biography on other incredible people both male and female.

[@evangelinesudhakar3790]

This was amazing to watch

[@JohnDoe-yj5ng]

Have you ever thought that, possibly, these UK women, in tech, moved to Silicon Valley? Because there are better opportunities there?

[@user-go9kw6wf4m]

But silicon valley too has just 12 percent women engineers

[@gnosis7662]

I don't think anyone in our modern world questions women's ability to be technical but the fact is that most women are not interested in technical things like men are. I think it's the way we are wired. 95 percent of Nobel prize winners are men. It's not because women are prevented from pursuing such careers. Universities and schools have been open to women for over a century. It's simply because they choose to pursue other careers and there is nothing wrong with that. Whether men or women invent something to benefit humankind shouldn't matter. What matters is that we improve life for all regardless of gender. The whole gender war is not a healthy thing if you ask me. Just causes division and animosity. We should all work together as a team and compliment one another instead of competing against one another.

[@abramyu262]

Society dictates indirectly

[@partialsun]

"The way we are wired" what a depressing way to think.

[@hnyii]

I hope you know better than this by now. While it is indeed nice to think that we are now equal enough to be rid of these "gender wars", that's just not the case. It's easy to think women are not "prevented" from participating in society in ways they previously were (more direct and obvious), cultural conditioning and other subtle barriers are still very much in place. For example, technical interests aren't wired, not even for men. Supporting women towards their pursuits is also a form of this working together you envision, and this asks for systemic changes.

[@aenglish8615]

Phenomenal 🎉🎉🎉

[@deekshaaah]

loved it ❤❤

[@ismaelspechtintuition3519]

Thanks for sharing this amazing knowledge.

[@anaeloisa1782]

Extremamente necessário!

[@TarotMediumNow]

Have you read "The Book of the City of Ladies?" by Christine De Pizan - you will love it!

[@derhampaul2182]

Venus

[@hydrabenjamin8960]

Never seen anything more woke in my life

[@gurldede]

This was amazing to watch!

[@mimozasolalisis73]

awesome !!!

[@theenforcer22]

Not 'her story' it'd be 'her tory'. Which means nothing.

[@lingux_yt]

amazing

[@salmankhanfilms3966]

Nice story

[@aleforsberg4115]

In central stockholm the capitol of sweden we have alot of status of men, but we do have statio of wome women to.

[@tomasbasaldua3468]

Heredó la genialidad de su padre lord byron

[@annujolly3024]

great talk

[@troyhayder6986]

Add 1 over 1(1)== 1

[@theenforcer22]

History is 'his tory' not 'his story'. So would literally be 'his conservative party supporter'. Anyway, history is from the latin word historia meaning ‘inquiry, narrative, account’ and has nothing to do with gender. Zoe Philpott has let herself down there with a cheap sexism claim. A sensationist attempt which you'd expect from a tabloid newspaper. Very dishonest and lacking in integrity. Has the drop in woman in tech happened at the same time as the increase in women doing only fans?

[@PicturesJester]

Godbless this woman for popularizing Ada's Lovelace achievements. But she needs to chill with the patriarchy. Ada wasn't ignored because she was a woman, she was ignored because literally no one else understood what she understood. It took 100 more years for someone to understand it again. It's a hard thing to understand, and she was the first in recorded history to do so. You don't need a conspiracy theory to explain Ada being relatively unknown. Ada and Babbage also failed completely to build the machine Ada was theorizing about and knew was possible, so there's also that, Turing did contribute to the building of the first universal computer, Ada didn't.

[@faustdownunder]

Emilie du Chatelet - ever heard of her ?

[@zxannaa]

oh no, Karen is watching the world

[@dendevs6120]

Im a director of small gaming development company. And i would like to employ more women, but there are nobody around. Changing names and recalling great women in herstory will not change that. There are very few female programmers and those who are there, asked ludicrous salaries. One made me laugh so hard - 1250 USD per hour... ( Nobody is that good) I am still stuck with employing males. Girls please, more work and less crying and it will be all ok...

[@luisdanielmesa]

"I'm a woman in tech" -> I work for Amazon and I haven't seen your name in any programming libraries I've used, I haven't seen any algorithms put forth by you nor any other means of building tech in which you've been involved. Just because you're a user of technology and you like it doesn't mean "you're in tech". I like watching videos in KZbin, that doesn't make me a director.

[@aliin8763]

Also: if you would have studied youtube and worked out the algorithm and know how to construct a video, you are a potential director, just as she studied so much about the evolution and history of technology makes her a tech person. You don't have to have a job to call yourself someone. Just try to educate yourself on some topics.

[@itsnotaricaria]

So are web-developers for example or software engineers outside of amazon not "in tech"?

[@Stettafire]

Implying that one must work for Amazon to be in tech. Nevermind that other countries other than the US exist

[@irenerayne7332]

Thats all u got ,stay pissed.

[@aleforsberg4115]

men work more in tech companies cus men are better at it i think tech companies will hire people whit competense not baset on gengers

[@pete-i7p]

Exactly

[@itsnotaricaria]

The Problem doesn't start in companies. It starts in schools when girls get encouraged to take non scientific classes which leads to less women studying engineering, mathematics, physics, etc

[@Stettafire]

@@itsnotaricaria this

[@shedesignsthings]

That's not even remotely true. That's called a fallacy. Behind every great man is the women who did everything for him in the first place. Even that line is a fallacy that I'll admit to, but at least it's not ridiculous. Understand that many places in the world women are still subjugated, and required to stay home. Many aren't taught, so understand that it has nothing to do with competence and everything to do with gender.

[@hnyii]

Paper finding out women actually make better programmers: 😮

[@Psiks]

His-story xD Um, actually name is got from Greek "Historia", which means knowledge acquired by investigation, it is not a conspiracy, take your tin foil out from your head :)

[@Velanaris]

Patryk Budzyński ...that was a joke.

[@prachetsalkade7571]

That was a joke

[@DavidxBoyd]

Get to the story without ranting about your own ignorance

[@aliin8763]

Why ignorance?

[@noneofyourbusiness5134]

@@aliin8763 I guess it could be argued that just because she was unfamiliar with Lovelace doesn't mean she was written out of history. I definitely came across her story in some popular children's history/science books 25+ years ago. Whether her contribution is given enough accolade is up for debate butto put it in perspective how many times have you heard the name Luigi Frederick Menebrea? I know I only found out about him in the last 12 months despite him writing the paper on the analytical engine that Ada translated and the basic programmes that Ada and Babbage further built upon. There will always be folk who are missed in the pages of history, its not always nefarious.

[@fromrctorealthing5299]

What is this woman and man fued.everyone knows now we care both equally