Ada Lovelace Day: Role Roll Call

If you've been under a rock for the last few months, perhaps you don't know about Ada Lovelace Day, 24 March (see http://findingada.com/ ). On that day 1678 (at last count) pledged to blog about a woman who is a role model in technology.

Today is the day and this is my blog contribution. For the past two months I've been making lists, trying to pick from the women I know of, have worked with and been inspired by just one to blog about. But it has been too hard to pick just one person, so I have made a list. Call it my "role roll call". I'll be micro-blogging the roll call throughout the day (on identica and twitter) and then capture it here at the end of the day.

You can follow the day's proceedings here (nice mashup).

Here's the Role Roll Call, as it unfolded on 24 March:

#ald09 Let the role roll call begin with: Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, programmer of the analytical engine.
6:21 AM Mar 24th from Identica

#ald09 Christine M Anderson, Ada 95 Project Manager.
http://www.af.mil/bios/bio.asp?bioID=4520
6:46 AM Mar 24th from Identica

#ald09 Nancy Leveson, pioneer in software safety, great work which I've used often.
http://sunnyday.mit.edu/
7:05 AM Mar 24th from Identica

#ald09 Judy Goldsmith dancer, computational complexity (which I mostly got) now Bayesian stuff (on which I've no clue!).
http://www.cs.uky.edu/~goldsmit/
7:54 AM Mar 24th from Identica

#ald09 Jean E. Sammet, IBM, ACM president. we met on IEEE Ada as Design Language committee.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_E._Sammet
8:16 AM Mar 24th from Identica

#ald09 Judy Clapp, my first manager at MITRE.
http://www.mitre.org/employment/trends_highlights/clapp_eng_award.html
9:04 AM Mar 24th from Identica

#ald09 Tanya Reinhart, linguist, Israeli peace activist, classmate. dearly missed.
http://www.chomsky.info/articles/20070318.htm
9:36 AM Mar 24th from Identica

#ald09 Carolyn L Talcott, formal reasoning, distributed systems, program transformation and reflection.
http://blackforest.stanford.edu/clt/
10:51 AM Mar 24th from Identica

#ald09 Wendy Carlos, I wish I could play my Moog like that!
11:26 AM Mar 24th from Identica

#ald09 Christine Hofmeister, chair IFIP WG 2.10 Software Architecture, colleague.
http://www.esu.edu/~chrish//crhhome.html
11:46 AM Mar 24th from Identica

#ald09 Myra Jean Prelle | concurrent | parallel | distributed | computing
12:31 PM Mar 24th from Identica

#ald09 Mary Shaw (CMU), colleague, pioneer in software architecture, software engineering education.
http://spoke.compose.cs.cmu.edu/shaweb/
12:54 PM Mar 24th from Identica

#ald09 Chloe O'Brian, that tough, smart intelligence analyst on 24 (played by Mary Lynn Rajskub)
1:29 PM Mar 24th from Identica

#ald09 Karen Lease, XML sorceress.
1:48 PM Mar 24th from Identica

#ald09 Nancy Lynch, distributed computing.
http://people.csail.mit.edu/lynch/
4:40 PM Mar 24th from Identica

#ald09 Janet Baker, entrepreneur, Dragon Systems founder, Balkan folk-dancer.
4:42 PM Mar 24th from Identica

#ald09 Maretta Holden, software engineering lab manager and researcher at Boeing for many years.
5:19 PM Mar 24th from Identica

#ald09 Patricia Lago, architectural knowledge and its representation.
http://www.cs.vu.nl/~patricia/
5:54 PM Mar 24th from Identica

#ald09 Adele Goldberg, Smalltalk-80, ParcPlace Systems.
6:27 PM Mar 24th from Identica

#ald09 Kathy Land, president IEEE Computer Society.
6:39 PM Mar 24th from Identica

#ald09 Judy Stafford (Tufts), software architecture, software testing.
http://www.cs.tufts.edu/~jas/
6:51 PM Mar 24th from Identica

#ald09 Margaret Minsky,
http://margaretminsky.com/
7:18 PM Mar 24th from Identica

#ald09 Valérie Issarny (INRIA), coordination, multi-policy security, trust management...
http://www-rocq.inria.fr/arles/members/issarny.html
7:34 PM Mar 24th from Identica

#ald09 Barbara Liskov (MIT) 2008 Turing Award, data abstraction, subtyping, distributed computing.
http://www.pmg.csail.mit.edu/~liskov/
7:47 PM Mar 24th from Identica