Saint Mary’s has a new STEM Center on the second floor of Assumption Hall for students studying Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. The STEM Center will provide several useful services, including:
- Math and Chemistry tutoring: Monday-Thursday 12-9 PM; Sunday 6-9 PM
- “Pathways to Science” speaker series featuring world-class scientists
- Social events with free food
- Study space and computer workstations
- If you have any questions, please contact Dr. Ameer Thompson at athompson@stmarys-ca.edu or (925) 631-6282
I have placed this here to address an important omission in the caption above, taken from the Computer History Museum. Lovelace would be a household name were she a man. She was the only legitimate child of Lord Byron, the revered English poet; she was a mathematician at a time when men decided women shouldn’t work in the academy; she made contributions to the formation of computer languages that should have made her as famous as Babbage-whose machine she enabled: “In her notes, Ada described how codes could be created for the device to handle letters and symbols along with numbers. She also theorized a method for the engine to repeat a series of instructions, a process known as looping that computer programs use today. Ada also offered up other forward-thinking concepts in the article. For her work, Ada is often considered to be the first computer programmer.” quote source here