It's like Comic-Con for nerds.

Isn't that just Comic-Con?

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I'm Greta Johnson.

I'm Trisha Bobita.

And this is the Nerdette podcast.

Today we bring you the story of a great lady nerd of his story.

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Yes, today we are celebrating Ada Lovelace. Okay, Greta, tell, today we are celebrating Ada Lovelace.

Okay, Greta, tell the nice nerds who Ada Lovelace is.

For this, first, I want to yield the floor to an expert.

She is amazing, and the more I understand about the context that she was living in, the more I realize just how imaginative and how far ahead of her time she was.

So that's Sue Charman Anderson. She's the founder of Ada Lovelace Day, which is today.

Sue is a social technologist. Yeah, that's one of those job titles where I have no idea what that

means. What does that mean?

So pretty much she works with businesses and organizations to help them create social media strategies to grow their communities online.

So it's pretty much a combination of psychology and technology.

Now, when it comes to Ada Lovelace Day, Sue actually had the idea for it before she had even heard of Ada Lovelace.

She just wanted to come up with a way to celebrate women in STEM fields.

That's science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, or maths, if you're British, I like how they say maths.

And we'll get into why women in STEM fields definitely need a day to celebrate each other and the work that's been done by awesome lady nerds throughout history.

But for now, let's just say they are severely underrepresented still in most of these technical

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