Margaret Hamilton (software engineer) - Wikipedia Margaret Elaine Hamilton (née Heafield; born August 17, 1936) 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
Margaret Hamilton | Biography Facts | Britannica 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
Margaret Hamilton - NASA Science 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
Margaret Hamilton - CHM For over five decades, Hamilton's methods have had a major impact on the field of software engineering up to and including the present day Hamilton received the NASA Exceptional Space Act Award (2003) and the Presidential Medal of Freedom awarded by Barack Obama (2016)
The Computer Scientist Who Saved the Moon Landing Hamilton was the lead software designer for NASA’s Apollo program, and her forward thinking saved the 1969 Apollo 11 mission when the flight software she designed prevented a last-minute abort of the famous landing which brought the first humans to the Moon
Margaret Hamilton (scientist) Margaret Heafield Hamilton (born August 17, 1936) [1] is a computer scientist, systems engineer, and business owner She was Director of the Software Engineering Division of the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, which developed on-board flight software for the Apollo space program [2]
Margaret Hamilton Reflects on Life, Career, and SAGE 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