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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