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   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 .

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   May 10, 2024 · Margaret Hamilton, American computer scientist who was one of the first computer software programmers. She created the term software engineer to describe her work. She helped write the computer code for the command and lunar modules used on the Apollo missions to the Moon in the late 1960s and early ’70s.

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   Who is Margaret Hamilton?

   • The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica This article was most recently revised and updated by Adam Augustyn. Margaret Hamilton, 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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   How did a software engineer help send astronauts to the Moon?

   • By relentlessly rooting out errors, the original software engineer helped send astronauts to the moon. When Margaret Hamilton was a child, her father used to take her on long drives through Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. They would talk the whole time about “philosophy—related things,” the software engineer, now 83, recalls.

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   Who was the first female programmer in the Apollo program?

   • She joined the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, which developed the Apollo Guidance Computer for the Apollo lunar exploration program. Hamilton was the first programmer hired for the Apollo project at MIT and the first female programmer in the project, and later became Director of the Software Engineering Division.

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   How old was Elizabeth Hamilton when she started coding?

   • This shot was taken during the Apollo 11 mission, when Hamilton was 33 years old. Her code ran in one of the first ever chip-based computers, which had only 64 kilobytes of memory. Hamilton, who was among the first women to join the world of software development, was a modern day pioneer.

   Meet Margaret Hamilton: The Woman Behind the Apollo Project

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5. www.technologyreview.com › 579 › margaret-hamiltonMargaret Hamilton | MIT Technology Review

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   Aug 16, 2019 · August 16, 2019. Margaret Hamilton TOAN TRINH; STYLING BY LAURA DILLON. When Margaret Hamilton was a child, her father used to take her on long drives through Michigan’s Upper Peninsula....

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   Oct 4, 2021 · Landing men on the moon with just over 32,000 bits of Random Access Memory (that’s 0.004 megabytes!) probably wasn’t the kind of high-wire act that Margaret Heafield Hamilton imagined for ...

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8. news.mit.edu › 2016 › apollo-code-developer-margaretApollo code developer Margaret Hamilton receives Presidential ...

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   Nov 17, 2016 · Margaret H. Hamilton, a pioneering computer scientist and former head of the Software Engineering Division of MIT's Instrumentation Laboratory who led the development of on-board flight software for NASA's Apollo moon missions, has been awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

9. www.open.edu › openlearn › science-maths-technologyMargaret Hamilton: Spaceship Programmer and Software Pioneer

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   Jun 12, 2019 · Margaret Hamilton: Spaceship Programmer and Software Pioneer. Updated Wednesday, 12 June 2019. Without the work of the lead Apollo flight software designer, Margaret Hamilton, the Eagle would not have landed on the Moon. Image 1: Photo from NASA, 1989.

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11. www.mentalfloss.com › article › 64941Meet Margaret Hamilton: The Woman Behind the Apollo Project

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    Jul 19, 2019 · Hamilton was born in 1936, and received a B.A. in math from Earlham College. She taught herself to program before becoming the director of the Software Engineering Division of the MIT...