Ada Lovelace Award

The Ada Lovelace Award is given in honor of the English mathematician and computer programmer, Ada Lovelace, by the Association for Women in Computing. Founded in 1981, as the Service Award, which was given to Thelma Estrin, it was named the Augusta Ada Lovelace Award, the following year.[1][2]

Margaret Hamilton, the 1986 winner of the Ada Lovelace Award.

The award is given to individuals who have excelled in either of two areas: outstanding scientific technical achievement and/or extraordinary service to the computing community through accomplishments and contributions on behalf of women in computing.[2]

Award winners
Year Name Reference
1982 Thelma Estrin [3]
1983 Grace Hopper [4]
1984 Ruth M. Davis [5]
1985 Amy D. Wohl [6]
1986 Margaret H. Hamilton [7]
1989 Jean E. Sammet [8]
1995 Anita Borg [9]
1997 Betty Holberton [10]
1998 Esther Dyson [11]
2000 Adele Mildred ("Milly") Koss [12]
2001 Dorothy E. Denning [13]
2002 Frances E. Allen [14]
2003 Carol Bartz [15]
2004 Anita K. Jones [16]
2005 C. Dianne Martin

References
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  9. About Anita Borg, AnitaB.org, retrieved 2018-10-20
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  11. Monthly Newsletter, Association for Women in Computing, Northern New Jersey Chapter, October 1998, archived from the original on 2018-10-21, retrieved 2018-10-20
  12. Author biography for Koss, Adele Mildred (April 2007), "CDC, Raytheon, and Harvard University: Three Early Data Management Systems", IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, 29 (2): 55–65, doi:10.1109/mahc.2007.19
  13. 2001 Lovelace Award goes to Dr. Dorothy Denning, Association for Women in Computing, April 15, 2002, retrieved 2018-10-20 – via Eurekalert
  14. "Frances ("Fran") Elizabeth Allen", Turing Award Winners, Association for Computing Machinery, retrieved 2018-10-20
  15. Association for Women in Computing Names Carol Bartz for Highest Honor; Autodesk CEO Receives Augusta Ada Lovelace Award, June 16, 2003, retrieved 2018-10-20 – via Businesswire
  16. CS Author Anita Jones Recognized by NAE, IEEE Computer Society, October 4, 2010, retrieved 2018-10-20
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