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Margaret Hamilton.
American NASA scientist and mathematician
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Apollo Software Pioneer Margaret Hamilton Dies at 90
Margaret Hamilton, Apollo flight-software leader who coined software engineering and whose code handled the 1969 moon-landing alarm, has died at 90.
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About Margaret Hamilton
Margaret Elaine Hamilton is an American computer scientist. She directed the Software Engineering Division at the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, where she led the development of the on-board flight software for NASA's Apollo Guidance Computer for the Apollo program. She later founded two software companies, Higher Order Software in 1976 and Hamilton Technologies in 1986, both in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Everything about Margaret Hamilton →- Occupation
- computer scientist, mathematician, engineer, businessperson
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- August 17, 1936