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Today is Ada Lovelace Day, "an international day of blogging to draw
attention to women excelling in technology".

http://findingada.com/

To take part
All you need to do is sign the pledge, pick your tech heroine and then publish your blog post any time on Tuesday 24th March 2009. It doesn’t matter how new or old your blog is, what gender you are, what language you blog in, or what you normally blog about - everyone is invited.

Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper was a computer scientist and United States Naval officer.

She developed the first compiler for a computer programming language.

Because of the breadth of her accomplishments and her naval rank, she is sometimes referred to as "Amazing Grace".

In the 1970s, she pioneered the implementation of standards for testing computer systems and components, most significantly for early programming languages such as FORTRAN and COBOL. The Navy tests for conformance to these standards led to significant convergence among the programming language dialects of the major computer vendors. In the 1980s, these tests (and their official administration) were assumed by the National Bureau of Standards (NBS), known today as the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).