Conceiving Ada

Overview

Emmy Coer, a computer genius, devises a method of communicating with the past by tapping into undying information waves. She manages to reach the world of Ada Lovelace, founder of the idea of a computer language and proponent of the possibilities of the "difference engine." Ada's ideas were stifled and unfulfilled because of the reality of life as a woman in the nineteenth century. Emmy has a plan to defeat death and the past using her own DNA as a communicative agent to the past, bringing Ada to the present. But what are the possible ramifications?

Release Date

19 February 1999

85 minutes

Director

Main Cast

Ada Augusta Byron King, Countess of Lovelace
Lady Byron / Mother Coer
Charles Babbage
Nicholas Clayton
William Lovelace
Children's Tutor
Mary Shelley
Dr. Locock