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Ada Lovelace

January 2024

  • ‘There were about a million drafts’ … Grochala at the London Library, where the ceremony took place.

    ‘I felt deep rage’: Sarah Grochala on her prize-winning play about snubbed computer genius Ada Lovelace

    It took her eight years to write Intelligence, an era-hopping epic about the pioneer’s battle for recognition. Now that it’s won the Women’s prize for playwriting, will Grochala stop telling her students to try a different career?

November 2023

  • Fruit of the strawberry tree (Arbutus unedo)

    Country diary
    Country diary: A calculated garden that’s still thriving

    Culbone Woods, Somerset: We have Ada Lovelace and her husband to thank for this stretch of misty, coastal woodland that harbours many gems

October 2022

  • Kate Devlin, photographed in London. Kate Devlin, born Adela Katharine Devlin is a British computer scientist specialising in Artificial intelligence and Human–computer interaction (HCI). She is best known for her work on human sexuality and robotics and was co-chair of the annual Love and Sex With Robots convention in 2016 held in London and was founder of the UK's first ever sex tech hackathon held in 2016 at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is a senior lecturer in the department of computing at Goldsmiths, part of the University of London and is the author of Turned On: Science, Sex and Robots in addition to several academic papers.

    Academic blocked from giving civil service talk because of criticism of government

    Dr Kate Devlin told her invitation had been withdrawn owing to past comments on social media

November 2019

  • Ada Lovelace: Imagining the Analytical Engine, at the Barbican, London.

    Ada Lovelace: Imagining the Analytical Engine review – where rhythms meet algorithms

  • Byron’s Daughter<br>circa 1840: Augusta Ada, Countess Lovelace, (nee Byron) (1815 - 1852) 1st wife of William King the first earl. She was the daughter of poet Lord Byron and the computer language ADA was named after her in recognition of the help she gave computer pioneer Charles Babbage. Original Publication: From a drawing by Alfred Edward Chalon RA (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) white;format portrait;female;Personality;High Society;British;English;P 34460;P/LOVELACE/AUGUSTA

    OK computer: how Ada Lovelace is being brought to musical life

October 2019

  • Ada Lovelace

    Chips with Everything
    The Lovelace effect: Chips with Everything podcast

    To mark the 10th year of Ada Lovelace Day, Jordan Erica Webber talks to the founder of the event, Suw Charman-Anderson, about supporting women working in STEM. She also speaks to Dr Tilly Blyth of the Science Museum in London about why Lovelace was a mathematician ahead of her time

November 2018

  • The statue of Millicent Fawcett in Parliament Square

    The Guardian view on blue plaques and banknotes: making women count

    Editorial: Famous females on plinths and currency won’t end inequality, but they matter as a statement of intent
  • Alan Turing

    Turing, Lovelace or Franklin? Your choices for the new £50 note

    Readers discuss the scientists they would like to see on a new £50 note after the Bank of England asked for nominations
  • Stephen Hawking.

    Lovelace and Hawking among contenders to be new face of £50 note

    Scientist has to be British – and dead – with 19-century mathematician known as ‘grandmother of computing’ as early frontrunner

October 2018

  • Ada Lovelace by Kate Pankhurst

    Are women in science any better off than in Ada Lovelace’s day?

    Jess Wade
    On Ada Lovelace Day, we should rethink access to scientific fields, says researcher Jess Wade

July 2018

  • Dorothy Hodgkin

    Five amazing female scientists you’ve probably never heard of

    Suw Charman-Anderson
    Jess Wade’s work to add women in science to Wikipedia demonstrates the importance of Stem role models for young people, says journalist and activist Suw Charman-Anderson
  • Detail from Margaret Carpenter’s portrait of the pioneering mathematician Ada Lovelace

    First edition of Ada Lovelace's pioneering algorithm sold for £95,000

    Rare book by ‘world’s first computer programmer’ contains a groundbreaking method for calculating Bernouilli numbers
  • Guardian front page, Friday 13 July

    Brief letters
    We’ve got the Guardian masthead blues and we’re overjoyed

    Brief letters: Ada Lovelace | Morris Minors | Halal school meals | ‘Gordon Bennett’ | Guardian masthead | Angry seabirds

March 2018

  • Ada Lovelace. Augusta Ada King-Noel, Countess of Lovelace (nee Byron; 1815-1852), an English mathematician and writer, chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine. Portrait c.1835.<br>KYTGC6 Ada Lovelace. Augusta Ada King-Noel, Countess of Lovelace (nee Byron; 1815-1852), an English mathematician and writer, chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine. Portrait c.1835.

    Book of the day
    In Byron’s Wake by Miranda Seymour – the Lord’s ladies

    Byron’s wife and daughter - Annabella Milbanke and Ada Lovelace – can’t escape the shadow of the great libertine in this in-depth account of their lives

August 2017

  • Mary Jackson working at Nasa.

    Sorry, Google memo man: women were in tech long before you

    Holly Brockwell
    Doesn’t James Damore know women were the original computer programmers, writes freelance technology journalist Holly Brockwell

March 2017

  • Byron’s Daughter<br>circa 1840: Augusta Ada, Countess Lovelace, (nee Byron) (1815 - 1852) 1st wife of William King the first earl. She was the daughter of poet Lord Byron and the computer language ADA was named after her in recognition of the help she gave computer pioneer Charles Babbage. Original Publication: From a drawing by Alfred Edward Chalon RA (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) white;format portrait;female;Personality;High Society;British;English;P 34460;P/LOVELACE/AUGUSTA

    Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
    Did you solve it? Take the Ada Lovelace challenge (Solution part I)

  • History<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Universal History Archive/REX/Shutterstock (2545953a) Augusta Ada, Countess Lovelace (1815-1852) English mathematician and writer. Daughter of the poet Byron. Friend of Charles Babbage. Devised programme for his Analytical Engine. Portrait by Margaret Carpenter. History

    Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
    Can you solve it? Take the Ada Lovelace challenge

October 2016

  • Students learning about rapid iteration during the UX and Product workshop

    Engineering blog
    Ada Lovelace Day 2016

    On 11 October we celebrated Ada Lovelace day with a day of workshops and inspiring talks, attended by 50 school students from years 9 through to sixth form
  • Portrait of Aleks Krotoski

    The week in radio: Digital Human; Planet Money; Recode Decode; Codebreaker; Today

    Laura Bates’s takedown of Justin Webb was the highlight of a day celebrating women in science, technology and contemporary life
  • Mary Anning painting

    Lost worlds revisited
    Palaeontology is full of dinosaurs - and not in a good way for women's careers

    Catalina Pimiento
    For Ada Lovelace Day I’ve been on a quest to examine the issues faced by women in palaeontology. One thing is clear: attitudes need to change
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