Happy Ada Lovelace Day -- an international celebration of women in science and technology! English mathematician Ada Lovelace is widely considered the world's first computer programmer for her invention of the computer algorithm. Born in 1815 to the poet Lord Byron and Anne Isabella Byron, Lovelace's mathematical talents led to an ongoing collaboration with mathematician Charles Babbage, who calle d Lovelace the "Enchantress of Numbers." While translating an article by an Italian engineer on Babbage's Analytical Engine, a proposed early version of a mechanical general-purpose computer, Ada added her own set of notes which contained a tremendous breakthrough -- the first computer program or algorithm. Ada Lovelace Day was started in Britain in 2009 as a day for creating new role models for girls and women in technical fields by raising the profile of today’s female STEM leaders. The event's founder, Suw Charman-Anderson, described the signif