A History of Britain in 21 Women by Jenni Murray

Author:Jenni Murray
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
Published: 2016-09-06T16:00:00+00:00

Ada is remembered in the twenty-first century and held up frequently as a model for other young women who are interested in science. A computer program created for the United States Department of Defense is called Ada in her memory, and London’s Crossrail project even has a tunnel-boring machine known as Ada. Since 1998 the British Computer Society has awarded a medal in her name and in 2008 they began an annual competition for women who are studying computer science. A yearly conference for women undergraduates is called the BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium and Ada Lovelace Day is an annual event held in October with the aim of raising ‘the profile of women in science, technology, engineering and maths and to create new role models for girls and women’.

In 2015 the Computer History Museum opened an exhibition, ‘Thinking Big: Ada Countess of Lovelace’, to mark the two hundredth anniversary of her birth. Kirsten Taschev, vice president of exhibitions and collections, said of her: ‘Ada Lovelace is often recognised for her partnership with Charles Babbage, but she was also a woman of fierce originality and intellectual interests. She envisioned the future of computers as symbol manipulators as well as their far-reaching creative possibilities. CHM’s new exhibit uniquely explores both sides of Lovelace: the mathematician and the visionary.’ I like to think Ada Lovelace is the ultimate confluence of art and science, genetically programmed to be her father’s and her mother’s daughter – a poet and a computer buff.

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