Ada Lovelace Award

{{Short description|Award for women in computing, founded 1981}}

File:Margaret Hamilton 1995.jpg, the 1986 winner of the 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.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6z0aAQAAMAAJ&q=the+Augusta+Ada+Lovelace+Award+by+the+Association+for+Women+in+Computing |title=Awards, Honors & Prizes: United States and Canada |last=Webster |first=Valerie J. |date=2000 |publisher=Gale Group |isbn=9780787634018 |language=en}}{{cite web| url=http://awc-hq.org/ada-lovelace-awards.html | title=Ada Lovelace Awards | publisher=Association for Women in Computing | access-date=1 June 2017 }}

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.

Award winners

class="wikitable"
Year

! Name

! Reference

1982

|Thelma Estrin

|{{citation|url=https://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/csep590/06au/lectures/slides/Deibel_Nov_22.pdf|title=Women in Computing|work=History of Computing (CSE P590A) Lecture Notes|first=Katherine|last=Deibel|date=November 22, 2006|access-date=2018-10-20}}

1983

|Grace Hopper

|{{citation|url=http://history.computer.org/pioneers/hopper.html|title=Graca Brewster Murray Hopper|work=Computer Pioneers|first=J. A. N.|last=Lee| publisher=IEEE Computer Society |access-date=2018-10-20}}

1984

|Ruth M. Davis

|{{citation|url=https://www.nap.edu/read/18477/chapter/14|title=Ruth M. Davis, 1928–2012|journal=Memorial Tributes|publisher=National Academies Press|volume=17|year=2013|pages=74–79|first=C. D. (Dan) Jr.|last=Mote|author-link=C. Daniel Mote Jr.}}

1985

|Amy D. Wohl

|{{citation|magazine=Computerworld|date=June 24, 1985|page=24|title=Wohl will be honored at AWC meet|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-pFmhH5Yv1AC&pg=PA24}}

1986

|Margaret H. Hamilton

|{{citation|url=https://www.wired.com/insights/2014/08/software-woman-heart-lunar-triumph/|magazine=Wired|title=Software – and a woman – at the heart of lunar triumph}}

1989

|Jean E. Sammet

|{{citation|url=https://www.computer.org/web/awards/pioneer-jean-sammet|title=Jean E. Sammet, 2009 Computer Pioneer Award Recipient|date=29 March 2018 |publisher=IEEE Computer Society|access-date=2018-10-20}}

1995

|Anita Borg

|{{citation|url=https://anitab.org/about-us/about-anita-borg/|title=About Anita Borg|publisher=AnitaB.org|access-date=2018-10-20}}

1997

|Betty Holberton

|{{citation|url=http://eniacprogrammers.org/eniac-programmers-project/awards/|title=Awards|work=ENIAC Programmers Project|access-date=2018-10-20}}

1998

|Esther Dyson

|{{citation|url=http://pages.csam.montclair.edu/~deremer/awc/news9810.html|title=Monthly Newsletter|publisher=Association for Women in Computing, Northern New Jersey Chapter|date=October 1998|access-date=2018-10-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181021111712/http://pages.csam.montclair.edu/~deremer/awc/news9810.html|archive-date=2018-10-21}}

2000

|Adele Mildred ("Milly") Koss

|Author biography for {{citation

| last = Koss | first = Adele Mildred

| date = April 2007

| doi = 10.1109/mahc.2007.19

| issue = 2

| journal = IEEE Annals of the History of Computing

| pages = 55–65

| title = CDC, Raytheon, and Harvard University: Three Early Data Management Systems

| volume = 29| s2cid = 25897381

}}

2001

|Dorothy E. Denning

|{{citation|url=https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2002-04/afwi-2la041502.php|title=2001 Lovelace Award goes to Dr. Dorothy Denning|date=April 15, 2002|publisher=Association for Women in Computing|via=Eurekalert|access-date=2018-10-20}}

2002

|Frances E. Allen

|{{citation|url=https://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/allen_1012327.cfm|title=Frances ("Fran") Elizabeth Allen|work=Turing Award Winners|publisher=Association for Computing Machinery|access-date=2018-10-20}}

2003

|Carol Bartz

|{{citation|url=https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20030616005060/en/Association-Women-Computing-Names-Carol-Bartz-Highest|title=Association for Women in Computing Names Carol Bartz for Highest Honor; Autodesk CEO Receives Augusta Ada Lovelace Award|date=June 16, 2003|via=Businesswire|access-date=2018-10-20}}

2004

|Anita K. Jones

|{{citation|url=https://www.computer.org/web/pressroom/bueche-award|title=CS Author Anita Jones Recognized by NAE|publisher=IEEE Computer Society|date=October 4, 2010|access-date=2018-10-20}}

2005

|C. Dianne Martin

|{{cite web |url= https://awc-hq.org/ada-lovelace-awards.html |title= Ada Lovelace Awards |publisher= Association for Women in Computing |access-date= September 18, 2021}}

See also

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