Yes, I’ve managed to survive grant-writing season, hurrah!\u00a0 (Now we just wait for 8 months to see if funding will be forthcoming.)\u00a0 I should be getting back to cooking soon.<\/p>\n
In the meantime, here is a diversion for you: some of my favourite posts from Ada Lovelace Day<\/a> (yesterday, 24th of March).<\/p>\n Jean Bartik<\/a>, ENIAC programmer<\/p>\n Valerie Aurora<\/a>, Linux kernal programmer<\/p>\n Hedy Lamarr<\/a>(!), co-inventor of spread spectrum frequency hopping<\/p>\n Mary Somerville and Agnes Clarke<\/a>, interpreters and communicators of science<\/p>\n Enid Mumford<\/a>, sociotechnologist<\/p>\n Addison Berry<\/a>, Drupal developer and mobilizer<\/p>\n Jane McGonigal<\/a>, game designer and futurist<\/p>\n Karen<\/a> Sp\u00e4rk <\/strong>Jones<\/a>, computational linguist<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Ada Lovelace<\/a> (1815-1852) wrote the first computer programs, for Charles Babbage’s analytical engine<\/a>. And Ada Lovelace Day is an international day of blogging to celebrate women in technology. You can track down loads of other ALD posts via Technorati<\/a> or the Ada Lovelace Day Collection<\/a> – many of them are worth a read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yes, I’ve managed to survive grant-writing season, hurrah!\u00a0 (Now we just wait for 8 months to see if funding will be forthcoming.)\u00a0 I should be getting back to cooking soon. In the meantime, here is a diversion for you: some of my favourite posts from Ada Lovelace Day (yesterday, 24th of March). Jean Bartik, ENIAC […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[19],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.woolfit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.woolfit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.woolfit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.woolfit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.woolfit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.woolfit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.woolfit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.woolfit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.woolfit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}