Today is Ada Lovelace Day and more than 1500 people have pledged to write a blog post about an inspirational woman in computing.
As such I'd like to write my first post about a woman that I learned about when writing my article "The $100 Role Model" for the BCS's ITNow magazine. Mary Lou Jepson was the amazing woman behind the One Laptop Per Child project aimed at taking the internet age to children who would normally have no chance to experience such things. Having been diagnosed with a brain tumour she battled against the disease and carried on to be the lead innovator for the OLPC project which resulted in the XO laptop.
In 2008 she was named by Time Magazine in its list of the 100 most influential people in the world - a truly inspirational woman.
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