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Loading... 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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Aug 13, 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 · One of the many contributors to this effort was Margaret Hamilton, a computer scientist who led the Software Engineering Division of the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, which in 1961 contracted with NASA to develop the Apollo program’s guidance system.
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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4 days ago · Margaret Hamilton is a computer scientist who led the team that created the on-board flight software for NASA's Apollo missions. She also coined the term "software engineering" and developed the Universal Systems Language (USL) for systems and software design.
Nov 30, 2016 · Learn about the computer scientist who led the software engineering division at MIT for the Apollo missions. She developed concepts that set the foundation for modern, ultra-reliable software design and engineering, and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016.
Aug 17, 2016 · Learn about the computer scientist who led the team that developed the flight software for NASA's Apollo program, which landed humans on the moon in 1969. See the iconic photo of her and her code, and read her reflections on the project.
