Named After Ada Lovelace
The computer language Ada, created on behalf of the United States Department of Defense, was named after Ada Lovelace. The reference manual for the language was approved on 10 December 1980, and the Department of Defense Military Standard for the language, "MIL-STD-1815", was given the number of the year of her birth. Since 1998, the British Computer Society has awarded a medal in her name and in 2008 initiated an annual competition for women students of computer science.
The village computer centre in the village of Porlock, near where Ada Lovelace lived, is named after her.
There is a building in the small town of Kirkby-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire named "Ada Lovelace House".
Now-defunct UK computer company International Computers Limited (now Fujitsu Siemens) had their main development centre at Lovelace Road in Bracknell. 51° 24' 25" N 0° 46' 28" W
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