The project team named the intelligent space after mathematician Augusta Ada, Countess of Lovelace (1815–1852).

The English noblewoman is nowadays considered to have been the first woman programmer. The development of modern computers has put the spotlight on this once-forgotten mathematically trained countess.

Augusta Ada was born the daughter of Annabella Milbanke and the poet Lord Byron. Married to the Count of Lovelace, she devoted her free time to mathematics. Ada Lovelace worked together with Charles Babbage who had designed several models for a calculating machine. Her "Analytical Engine” is today regarded as the predecessor of the computer.

When Ada discovered a computational error by Babbage, she focused on such problems and developed the organisational principles of the computational operations now known as "loop,” "subroutine” and "conditional jump.” With her work on these principles, she laid the foundations for the programming of computers.