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Margaret Hamilton, who led a software team for NASA's Apollo program, dies at 90
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Margaret Hamilton, a groundbreaking computer scientist who led the team that created the onboard flight software for NASA’s moon-bound Apollo program, has died.
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Margaret Hamilton, the groundbreaking researcher who helped create the field of software engineering and whose code helped land NASA’s Apollo astronauts on the moon to win the 20th century space race, has died. She was 90.
MIT computer scientist led development of software for moon mission and earned Presidential Medal of Freedom Margaret Hamilton, the computer pioneer whose software powered the first moon landing, has died, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announced on Wednesday. She was 90.
American scientist Margaret Hamilton, who led development of the computer system used by NASA's Apollo lunar program, has died at 90, her former employer said Wednesday.
US scientist Margaret Hamilton is being hailed as a pioneer for her groundbreaking work developing software for NASA's Apollo lunar program. She died at the age of 90.
Margaret Hamilton died Sept. 30, according to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The trailblazing pioneer played a crucial role in the development of flight software for NASA's Apollo Program, which was responsible for taking humans to the moon for the first time.
Margaret Hamilton, a groundbreaking computer scientist who led the team that created the onboard flight software for NASA’s moon-bound Apollo program, has died.
“Our astronauts didn’t have much time. But thankfully, they had Margaret Hamilton,” President Barack Obama said when he awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
The best memorial is a renewed commitment to the competence, testing, and engineering discipline that made her work consequential. The post Margaret Hamilton, Pioneering Software Engineer Behind Apollo’s Success, Dies at 90 first appeared on Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion .
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