This day, named in honour of the world’s first computer programmer, aims to inspire women to pursue careers in these subjects by sharing stories and events about of female engineers, scientists, technologists, medics and mathematicians. The University is encouraging its own large community of women, both staff and students, working in STEMM subjects to get involved by sharing stories about what or who inspires them, providing an insight into their professional lives.

The School of Mathematics is celebrating the day with a special Ada Lovelace Day Public Talk - Data science: drinking from the firehose with Miranda Mowbray of Hewlett Packard Labs whose research interests include machine learning applied to computer network security and ethics for Big Data analysis.

From blog posts and tweets to Facebook and Flickr albums, University staff and students will be sharing tales of their inspiration across the social media landscape during the day using #UoBinspired @BristolUni and #ALD16 @findingada.