Ada Lovelace Day

Frosted cake featuring iconic portrait of Ada Lovelace and text Ada Lovelace Day 2013.
Cake made to celebrate Ada Lovelace Day at a 2013 Edit-a-thon held in Oxford, England.

Ada Lovelace Day is an annual event held on the second Tuesday of October to celebrate and raise awareness of the contributions of women to STEM fields. It is named after mathematician and computer science pioneer Ada Lovelace. It started in 2009 as a "day of blogging" and has since become a multi-national event with conferences.[1][2]

  1. ^ "Celebration of women in science and tech ending". BBC. 11 October 2022.
  2. ^ "Ada Lovelace Day: We should never forget the first computer programmer". The Independent. 13 October 2020.