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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Margaret_HamiltonMargaret Hamilton (software engineer) - Wikipedia

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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. She later founded two software companies—Higher Order Software in 1976 and Hamilton ...

2. www.britannica.com › biography › Margaret-HamiltonMargaret Hamilton | Biography & Facts | Britannica

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   May 9, 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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   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...

5. www.ted.com › talks › matt_porter_and_margaretNASA's first software engineer: Margaret Hamilton - TED

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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?

6. www.computer.org › publications › tech-newsFirst Software Engineer | IEEE Computer Society

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   Oct 5, 2018 · Right before Apollo 11 was about to land on the moon, the software program overrode normal operations to let the astronauts know something was wrong. Margaret Hamilton, lead software engineer of the Apollo Project, stands next to a huge stack of code written by her and her team, in 1969.

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

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   Aug 16, 2019 · MIT News feature. Margaret Hamilton. By relentlessly rooting out errors, the original software engineer helped send astronauts to the moon. Cara Giaimo, SM ’15. August 16, 2019. Margaret Hamilton...

8. www.nasa.gov › history › alsjMargaret Hamilton - NASA

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   Sep 3, 2003 · nasa honors apollo engineer Margaret Hamilton, leader of the team that developed the flight software for the agency's Apollo missions, has been granted a NASA Exceptional Space Act Award for her scientific and technical contributions.