Most people involved in IT know that today is is Ada Lovelace Day; an important day in which we celebrate the achievements of women in technology and science.

Well, I should be talking about women in technology. I don’t know many in a personal level, and none of them are particularly notable. I’ll restrict my choice to my field, programming, and my country, Portugal.

So in the spirit of the Ada Lovelace day, I would like to mention Cândida Ferreira, a Portuguese-born researcher which have made some notable achievents in programming. Here is a shameless copy of her online bio:

Cândida Ferreira studied Biochemistry at Kharkov University (1985-1990) in the former USSR and received her Ph.D. from Lisbon University in Biology in 1995. She joined the Department of Agricultural Sciences at The Azores University in 1994, where she was Assistant Professor of Biochemistry since 1995 till October 2001. She invented the revolutionary Gene Expression Programming technique in 1999 and in 2000 co-founded Gepsoft to develop and commercialize software based on the GEP technique. She now works full time at Gepsoft as Chief Scientist. Her research spans the interplay between molecular biology, evolution, and machine learning.

You can learn more about her achievements at gene-expression-programming.com.

Celebrate Ada Lovelace Day!