Editing Ada Lovelace (section)

==In popular culture==
[[File:Ada Lovelace color.svg|thumb|upright|An illustration inspired by the [[A. E. Chalon]] portrait created for the [[Ada Initiative]], which supported open technology and women|alt=Illustration of Ada Lovelace's portrait in a gold frame]]

===Novels and plays===

Lovelace is portrayed in [[Romulus Linney (playwright)|Romulus Linney]]'s 1977 play ''[[Childe Byron]]''.<ref>{{cite web |last=Klein |first=Alvin |author-link=Alvin Klein |date=13 May 1984 |title=Theatre in review: A lusty Byron in Rockland |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/05/13/nyregion/theater-in-review-a-lusty-byron-in-rockland.html |url-access=limited |id={{ProQuest|425075032}} |newspaper=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref> In [[Tom Stoppard]]'s 1993 play ''[[Arcadia (play)|Arcadia]]'', the precocious teenage genius Thomasina Coverly—a character "apparently based" on Ada Lovelace (the play also involves [[Lord Byron]])—comes to understand [[chaos theory]], and theorises the [[second law of thermodynamics]], before either is officially recognised.<ref name="newyorker13">{{cite magazine|url=https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/tom-stoppards-arcadia-at-twenty |title=Tom Stoppard's 'Arcadia,' at Twenty |first=Brad |last=Leithauser |date=8 August 2013 |magazine=[[The New Yorker]]}}</ref><ref>[http://www.tomw.net.au/arcadia.txt Profile], Gale Edwards, 1994, Director of "Arcadia" for the Sydney Theatre Company</ref>

In the 1990 [[steampunk]] novel ''[[The Difference Engine]]'' by [[William Gibson]] and [[Bruce Sterling]],<ref>{{cite book |contribution=The Future Looms: Weaving Women and Cybernetics |first=Sadie|last=Plant |pages=45–64 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZXU5aoJL0-QC&pg=PA45 |title=Cyberspace/Cyberbodies/Cyberpunk: Cultures of Technological Embodiment |editor1-first=Mike |editor1-last=Featherstone |editor2-first=Roger |editor2-last=Burrows |publisher=SAGE Publications, in association with Theory, Culture & Society, School of Human Studies, University of Teesside |year=1995 |isbn=978-1-84860-914-3}}</ref> Lovelace delivers a lecture on the "punched cards" programme which proves [[Gödel's incompleteness theorems]] decades before their actual discovery. Lovelace and [[Mary Shelley]] as teenagers are the central characters in [[Jordan Stratford]]'s steampunk series, ''The Wollstonecraft Detective Agency''.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Moyer |first1=Edward |title=Can Jane Austen + steampunk spark girls' science fire? |url=https://www.cnet.com/uk/news/can-jane-austen-steampunk-spark-girls-science-fire/ |access-date=26 February 2017 |date=13 April 2012}}</ref>

Lovelace features in [[John Crowley (author)|John Crowley]]'s 2005 novel, ''Lord Byron's Novel: The Evening Land'', as an unseen character whose personality is forcefully depicted in her annotations and anti-heroic efforts to archive her father's lost novel.<ref>{{cite web |title=Byron's heir |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-jun-05-bk-straub5-story.html |first=Peter |last=Straub |author-link=Peter Straub |date=5 June 2005 |archive-date=10 November 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131110092446/https://articles.latimes.com/2005/jun/05/books/bk-straub5 |url-status=live}}</ref>

The 2015 play ''Ada and the Engine'' by [[Lauren Gunderson]] portrays Lovelace and Charles Babbage in unrequited love, and it imagines a post-death meeting between Lovelace and her father.<ref name="kqed">{{cite web |url=http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/the-do-list/ada-and-the-memory-engine/ |title=Ada and the Memory Engine |first= Sam |last=Hurwitt |publisher=KQED |archive-date=6 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150906141059/https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/the-do-list/ada-and-the-memory-engine/ |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="sfweekly">{{cite web |url=http://www.sfweekly.com/exhibitionist/2015/10/22/ada-and-the-memory-engine-love-by-the-numbers |title=Ada and the Memory Engine: Love by the Numbers |work=[[SF Weekly]] |date=22 October 2015 |access-date=14 November 2015 |author=Costello, Elizabeth |archive-date=6 April 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160406052014/http://www.sfweekly.com/exhibitionist/2015/10/22/ada-and-the-memory-engine-love-by-the-numbers |url-status=dead }}</ref> Lovelace and Babbage are also the main characters in [[Sydney Padua]]'s webcomic and graphic novel ''[[The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage]]''. The comic features extensive footnotes on the history of Ada Lovelace, and many lines of dialogue are drawn from actual correspondence.<ref>{{cite web |last=Doctorow |first=Cory |title=Comic about Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage |url=http://boingboing.net/2009/10/05/comic-about-ada-love.html |website=BoingBoing |access-date=10 October 2014 |date=5 October 2009}}</ref>

===Film and television===

In the 1997 film ''[[Conceiving Ada]]'', a computer scientist obsessed with Ada finds a way of communicating with her in the past by means of "undying information waves".<ref>{{cite web |last=Holden |first=Stephen |author-link=Stephen Holden |date=26 February 1999 |title='Conceiving Ada': Calling Byron's Daughter, Inventor of a Computer |url=https://www.nytimes.com/library/film/022699ada-film-review.html |id={{ProQuest|2235172968}} |newspaper=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref>

Lovelace, identified as Ada Augusta Byron, is portrayed by Lily Lesser in the second series of ''[[The Frankenstein Chronicles]]'' aired on ITV in 2017.<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6651616/characters/nm7104940/?ref_=ttfc_fcr_cst_11 |title="The Frankenstein Chronicles" Not John Marlott (TV Episode 2017) - Lilit Lesser as Ada Byron - IMDb |language=en-US |access-date=2025-04-29 |via=www.imdb.com}}</ref> She is employed as an "analyst" to provide the workings of a life-sized humanoid automaton. The brass workings of the machine are reminiscent of Babbage's analytical engine. Her employment is described as keeping her occupied until she returns to her studies in advanced mathematics.<ref>{{cite web|title=Episode 2 - Not John Marlott|url=http://www.itv.com/presscentre/ep2week45/frankenstein-chronicles|website=ITV Press Centre|access-date=10 February 2025}}</ref>

Lovelace and Babbage appear as characters in the [[Victoria (British TV series)|second season]] of the ITV series ''[[Victoria (UK TV series)|Victoria]]'' (2017). [[Emerald Fennell]] portrays Lovelace in the episode, "The Green-Eyed Monster."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6327804/ |title=The Green-Eyed Monster |date=14 January 2018|website=IMDb}}</ref>

"Lovelace" is the name of the operating system designed by the character Cameron Howe in ''[[Halt and Catch Fire (TV series)|Halt and Catch Fire]]'', which aired on [[AMC (TV channel)|AMC]] in the US in 2015.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://whatchareading.com/still-fire-recapreview-halt-catch-fire-adventure/ |title=Still On Fire: Recap/Review of Halt and Catch Fire "Adventure" |last=Biscotti |first=Steven |date=25 May 2015 |access-date=20 August 2023 |website=What'cha Reading?}}</ref>

Lovelace features as a character in "[[Spyfall (Doctor Who)|Spyfall, Part 2]]", the second episode of [[Doctor Who (series 12)|''Doctor Who'', series 12]], which first aired on [[BBC One]] on 5&nbsp;January 2020.<ref name="DW">{{cite web|url=https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/local-news/historical-computing-pioneer-ada-lovelace-3727259 |title=Historical computing pioneer Ada Lovelace from Hinckley stars in BBC's Doctor Who |date=2020-01-13 |last=Dawson |first=Nick |work=[[Leicester Mercury]] |access-date=2020-12-14}}</ref> The character was portrayed by Sylvie Briggs, alongside characterisations of Charles Babbage and [[Noor Inayat Khan]].<ref name="DW"/>

===Computing and STEM===
* [[Ada Lovelace Day]]
* A [[computer language]], initially developed by the [[United States Department of Defense|US Department of Defense]], is called [[Ada (programming language)|Ada]].
* The [[Lovelace Medal]] awarded by the [[British Computer Society]] (BCS).
* The Lovelace Lectures at the BCS sponsored by the [[Alan Turing Institute]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bcs.org/events-calendar/2021/may/bcs-lovelace-lecture-202021-prof-marta-kwiatkowska/|title=BCS Lovelace Lecture 2020/21 - Prof Marta Kwiatkowska &#124; BCS|website=www.bcs.org}}</ref>
* The Lovelace Lectures at [[Durham University]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.durham.ac.uk/departments/academic/engineering/about-us/departmental-lectures/lovelace-lecture-series/|title=Lovelace Lecture Series - Durham University|first=Durham|last=University|website=www.durham.ac.uk}}</ref>
* The [[Ada Lovelace Award]] awarded by the [[Association for Women in Computing]]
* The [[Ada Initiative]] supporting open technology and women is named after her.
* Ada Lovelace Building, the engineering mathematics building at the [[University of Bristol]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-10-08 |title=The Ada Lovelace Building: a home for Engineering Mathematics at Bristol |url=https://engineering.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/ada-lovelace-building-new-home-engineering-maths/ |access-date=2025-03-23 |website=engineering.blogs.bristol.ac.uk |language=en-GB}}</ref>
* Ada Lovelace Building, in [[Exeter Science Park]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://kta.uk.com/projects/ada-lovelace-building/|title=Ada Lovelace Building|website=kat.uk}}</ref>
* Ada Byron Building, in the Department of Computer Science and Systems Engineering at the [[University of Zaragoza]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://webdiis.unizar.es/gaz/location | title=Ada Byron Building|website=webdiis.unizar.es }}</ref>
* Ada Byron Research Centre in [[University of Malaga]], [[Andalucía]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ada Byron Research Centre - Home - University of Malaga |url=https://www.uma.es/adabyron/?set_language=en |access-date=2025-05-19 |website=www.uma.es}}</ref>
* Ada Lovelace Institute, a think tank dedicated to ensuring data and AI work for people and society.<ref>{{cite news |title=Ada Lovelace Institute |url=https://www.turing.ac.uk/research/research-projects/ada-lovelace-institute |access-date=6 March 2025 |work=[[Alan Turing Institute]]}}</ref>
* Ada Lovelace Centre for Digital Scholarship, Oxford{{Citation needed|date=March 2025}}
* Ada Lovelace Center for Digital Humanities at the [[FU Berlin]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.ada.fu-berlin.de | title=Ada Lovelace Center for Digital Humanities in Berlin |website=ada.fu-berlin.de}}</ref>
* ADA Lovelace Centre for Analytics, Data, Applications at [[Fraunhofer IIS]] originally called the ''ADA Lovelace Centre for Artificial Intelligence''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.iis.fraunhofer.de/en/profil/zukunftsinitiativen/adacenter.html|title=ADA Lovelace Center for Analytics, Data, Applications|website=Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS}}</ref>
* Ada Lovelace Excellence Scholarship at the [[University of Southampton]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ada Lovelace Excellence Scholarship {{!}} Electronics and Computer Science {{!}} University of Southampton |url=https://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Ada-scholarship |access-date=2025-03-23 |website=www.ecs.soton.ac.uk}}</ref>
* [[Adafruit Industries]]
* Ada Lovelace Centre, part of the [[Science and Technology Facilities Council]], a UK government agency that carries out research in science and engineering.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://adalovelacecentre.ac.uk/about-us/|title=Science and Technology Facilities Council: About us|website=adalovelacecentre.ac.uk|date=20 March 2024}}</ref>
* The [[Cardano (blockchain platform)|Cardano cryptocurrency platform]], launched in 2017, uses ''Ada'' as the name for the [[cryptocurrency]] and ''Lovelace'' as the smallest sub-unit of an Ada.<ref name="Cardano">{{Cite web |date=19 March 2021 |title=Cardano (ADA) is now available on Coinbase |url=https://blog.coinbase.com/cardano-ada-is-now-available-on-coinbase-dd30c1e0d93a |access-date=5 April 2021 |website=[[Coinbase]] |quote=The blockchain's native token, ADA, is named after the 19th century mathematician, Ada Lovelace |archive-date=20 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220920171211/https://blog.coinbase.com/cardano-ada-is-now-available-on-coinbase-dd30c1e0d93a |url-status=live}}</ref>
* Ada, an artwork incorporating artificial intelligence house at [[Microsoft]]'s Building 99.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/ada/|title=Ada|website=[[Microsoft]] }}</ref>
* In 2021, the code name of [[Nvidia]]'s [[Graphics processing unit|GPU]] architecture in its [[GeForce 40 series|RTX 4000]] series is [[Ada Lovelace (microarchitecture)|Ada Lovelace]].  It is the first Nvidia architecture to feature both a first and last name.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hampton |first=Jaime |date=20 September 2022 |title=Nvidia Introduces New Ada Lovelace GPU Architecture, OVX Systems, Omniverse Cloud |url=https://www.hpcwire.com/2022/09/20/nvidia-introduces-new-ada-lovelace-architecture-ovx-systems-omniverse-cloud/ |access-date=20 October 2022 |website=HPCwire |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |author=Aaron Klotz |date=20 September 2022 |title=GeForce RTX 4090, RTX 4080 GPU Roundup |url=https://www.tomshardware.com/news/geforce-rtx-4090-rtx-4080-gpu-roundup |access-date=20 October 2022 |website=Tom's Hardware |language=en}}</ref>
*  Ada Byron University Programming Contest at the [[Polytechnic University of Valencia]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://careers.edicomgroup.com/news/ada-byron-university-programming-contest/|title=Ada Byron University Programming Contest of the UPV|first=Content|last=Manager|date=24 February 2020}}</ref>

===Other===
[[File:Ada Countess of Lovelace computer pioneer 1815-1852 green plaque - 5 Station Parade Uxbridge Road Ealing W5 3LD.jpg|thumb|right|Green plaque in Ealing]]
[[File:Ada_Lovelace_blue_plaque,_Mallory_Park_01.jpg|thumb|right|Blue plaque at Mallory Park]]
[[File:Closeup_of_the_Ada_Lovelace_memorial_-_geograph.org.uk_-_6290702.jpg|thumb|right|Ada Lovelace Memorial]]
* A green plaque is to be found on Fordhook Avenue on the corner of 5 Station Parade, [[Uxbridge Road]], Ealing.{{Citation needed|date=March 2025}}
* [[Blue plaque]]s are at [[Mallory Park]] and [[St James's Square]].{{Citation needed|date=March 2025}}
* Ada Lovelace C of E High School in [[Greenford]], specialising in music, digital technologies and languages.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Curriculum {{!}} Ada Lovelace C of E High School |url=https://adalovelace.org.uk/attending-our-school/curriculum |access-date=2025-05-19 |website=adalovelace.org.uk}}</ref>
* Ada Lovelace House, council offices in [[Nottinghamshire]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://her.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/Monument/MNT27280/|title=MNT27280 - Ada Lovelace House - Nottinghamshire Historic Environment Record|website=her.nottinghamshire.gov.uk}}</ref> later proposed to be let to small business.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.chad.co.uk/news/new-office-plan-for-ada-house-1164801|title=New office plan for Ada house|date=9 January 2017 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://d2n2lep.org/280000-ada-lovelace-house-renovation-completed/|title=£280,000 Ada Lovelace House renovation completed|date=11 May 2017}}</ref>
* Ada Byron King Building at [[Nottingham Trent University]]
* Ada Lovelace Suite at [[Seaham Hall]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://seaham-hall.co.uk/accommodation/ada-lovelace-suite/|title=Ada Lovelace Suite &#124; Seaham Hall Coastal Spa Resort, Durham|date=23 June 2022|website=seaham-hall.co.uk}}</ref>
* The Lovelace Memorial is a Grade II Listed monument in [[Kirkby Mallory]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1187993|title=LOVELACE MEMORIAL APPROXIMATELY 30 METRES SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, Kirkby Mallory, Peckleton & Stapleton - 1187993 &#124; Historic England|website=historicengland.org.uk}}</ref>
* A clone of Ada Lovelace appears in the 2023 video game ''[[Starfield (video game)|Starfield]]'' <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://screenrant.com/starfield-recruit-historical-companion-history-amelia-earhart-clone/|title=You Won't Believe Starfield Includes This Historical Figure As A Companion|website=screenrant.com|date=14 September 2023 |access-date=15 March 2025}}</ref>
* Ada Lovelace is a playable leader in ''[[Sid Meier's Civilization VII]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://civilization.2k.com/en-GB/civ-vii/game-guide/leaders/ada-lovelace/|title=Ada Lovelace leader, Sid Meier's Civilization VII|website=civilization.2k.com|access-date=5 March 2025}}</ref>