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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.
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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The Apollo 11 moon landing was about the astronauts, mission control, software and hardware all working together as a seamless integrated system. None of which would have been possible without the contributions of one engineer: Margaret Hamilton. Who was this pioneer?
Aug 16, 2019 · By then, Hamilton was the head of software engineering for the Apollo program. As she likes to say, the Eagle’s crew were the first humans to walk on the lunar surface—and her team’s ...
Oct 13, 2015 · Software engineering, a concept Hamilton pioneered, has found its way from the moon landing to nearly every human endeavor. By the 1970s, Hamilton had moved on from NASA and the Apollo program.
May 30, 2015 · Meet Margaret Hamilton, the badass '60s programmer who saved the moon landing. Her code fixed a malfunction that could’ve prevented Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong from landing safely.
Mar 5, 2020 · Learn how Margaret Hamilton and her team of engineers built the software for the Apollo 11 mission that landed mankind on the Moon. -- The Apollo 11 moon landing was about the astronauts,...
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