Grace Hopper and Kathy Sierra
Here’s my response to the Ada Lovelace Day initiative. I have two nominations, one historical and the other sort of current.
My historical one is the late, great Rear Admiral Grace Hopper. This from the website devoted to her:
“Her work on compilers and on making machines understand ordinary language instructions led [...]

Old Style Management Is Dying
Sadly, no-one has told the patient.
We live in a connected world, where competition from clever and cost-effective talent is not going away. Businesses really need to value people’s knowledge if they want to stay in the game, creating work environments that let people collaborate and learn together.
We have been here before. [...]

In The Name Of The Wee Man!

I didn’t mean to write another blog post for a week but have been provoked into writing another one now, this very minute.
I was saying yesterday that academics can make a meal of things. As if to prove my point, I find this when skimming through my RSS feeds. [...]