Lovelace

American  

[luhv-leys] / ˈlʌvˌleɪs /

noun

1. Richard, 1618–56, English poet.

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Lovelace British  

/ ˈlʌvˌleɪs /

noun

1. Countess of, title of Ada Augusta King. 1815–52, English mathematician and personal assistant to Charles Babbage: daughter of Lord Byron. She wrote the first computer program

2. Richard. 1618–58, English Cavalier poet, noted for To Althea from Prison (1642) and Lucasta (1649)

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Example Sentences

In the startup’s Palo Alto offices, the conference rooms are named for legendary mathematicians—Poincaré, Gauss, Hilbert, Lovelace, Turing.

From The Wall Street Journal

Ms. Lovelace is considered the world’s first computer programmer.

From NewsForKids.net

Ada Lovelace Day – a global annual celebration of women working in Stem – is on borrowed time.

From BBC

Michael Birtwhistle, head of research at the Ada Lovelace Institute research group, believes the technology is so new that the laws have not yet caught up.

From BBC

“Volunteer agreements essentially are just a means of firms marking their own homework,” says Andrew Straight, associate director of the Ada Lovelace Institute, an independent research organisation.

From BBC