Greater equality in science will take more than Ada Lovelace Day
Ada Lovelace: a figurehead for women working in science and technologyPeter Macdiarmid/Getty ImagesBy Shannon PalusIn the beginning, the whole coding scene consisted of one woman. In the 1800s, the story goes, an aristocrat named Ada Lovelace was studying maths with inventor Charles Babbage, who had built a machine that could perform calculations –...
I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its component fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers. That is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark