The modern Ada Lovelaces and Grace Hoppers

Just came accross some "news" about some "geek girls"
who do high-level engineering and some other "cool" stuff and obviously have a say on Windows Vista, actually they're full of praise. [Their site is not up-to-date, though]. These are the modern incarnations of those women who challenged society's machismo, very prevalent throughout history, like the mathematician and Countess of Lovelace, daughter of the British poet Lord Bryon, Augusta Ada Byron, after whom the programming language Ada was named, and the American wizard Grace Hopper, the first woman to get a PhD in Mathematics at Yale, and who was instrumental in the creation of the legendary COBOL programming language. Books seldom bother to highlight the fact that behind great science feats there were women. I'm just making this reflection on this "Father's day" weekend when I want to pay tribute to my late father, a winner against all odds...
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