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Margaret Hamilton (born August 17, 1936, Paoli, Indiana, U.S.) 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.
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...
Aug 17, 2016 · August 17, 2016. Half a century ago, MIT played a critical role in the development of the flight software for NASA’s Apollo program, which landed humans on the Moon for the first time in 1969. One of the many contributors to this effort was Margaret Hamilton, a computer scientist who led the Software Engineering Division of the MIT ...
December 9, 1902 · Cleveland, Ohio, USA. Died. May 16, 1985 · Salisbury, Connecticut, USA (heart attack) Birth name. Margaret Brainard Hamilton. Nickname. Maggie. Height. 5′ (1.52 m) Mini Bio. Margaret Hamilton was born December 9, 1902 in Cleveland, Ohio, to Jennie (Adams) and Walter Hamilton.
Jul 13, 2019 · The Observer Computing. This article is more than 4 years old. Interview. Margaret Hamilton: ‘They worried that the men might rebel. They didn’t’. Zoë Corbyn. The trailblazing computer...
Mar 10, 2022 · That Margaret Hamilton was deservedly renowned for her achievements in computing is clear: In 2016, President Obama awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and in 2017 she became a Fellow of the Computer History Museum.
Jul 21, 2022 · Margaret Hamilton Reflects on Life, Career, and SAGE | MIT Lincoln Laboratory. An icon shares her story. 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.
