Margaret Hamilton, who led software development for Apollo program, dies at 90
Margaret Hamilton, who led Apollo onboard flight software at MIT, died at 90.
Margaret Hamilton, who led onboard flight software for NASA's Apollo program at MIT's Instrumentation Laboratory, died on September 30 at age 90. She helped establish software engineering as a discipline and contributed defensive, priority-driven code used on Apollo, later working as an entrepreneur. Honors included the 2016 Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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Margaret Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died on Sep. 30. She was 90.
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