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Mar 14, 2019 · Margaret Hamilton Led the NASA Software Team That Landed Astronauts on the Moon. Apollo’s successful computing software was optimized to deal with unknown problems and to interrupt one task to...
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Aug 17, 2016 · Women You Should Know celebrates the 80 th birthday of computer scientist Margaret Hamilton with a video spotlighting her work at MIT developing code for NASA’s Apollo program. Hamilton’s “Apollo code ultimately saved the Apollo 11 astronauts from having to abort their historic moon landing.”
Margaret Elaine Hamilton ( née Heafield; born August 17, 1936) is an American computer scientist. She was director of the Software Engineering Division of the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, which developed on-board flight software for NASA 's Apollo program. She later founded two software companies—Higher Order Software in 1976 and Hamilton ...
May 10, 2024 · Margaret Hamilton (born August 17, 1936, Paoli, Indiana, U.S.) is an American computer scientist who was one of the first computer software programmers; she created the term software engineer to describe her work.
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Aug 17, 2016 · Recalling the 'Giant Leap'. In 2009, Margaret Hamilton and fellow MIT software engineers described what is was like to contribute to the Apollo missions 40 years after the famous Apollo 11 landing in the Moon's Sea of Tranquility in July 1969. Read the Story on MIT News ›.
July 21, 2022. Computer History Museum. Margaret Hamilton is literally iconic. She is also intensely private, having never given a full-length interview about her life and career. That is, until now.
Jun 28, 2019 · Margaret Hamilton: MIT Software Pioneer Who Helped Save Apollo 11 Moon Mission. June 28, 2019 / 8:15 AM EDT / CBS Boston. (CBS) - Imagine the moment as Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were...
