Margaret Hamilton
American NASA scientist and mathematician
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Margaret Hamilton was an American NASA scientist and mathematician who played a crucial role in the Apollo space program. Her work is important because she helped develop the computer software that guided the Apollo spacecraft to the Moon and back safely.
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- 1936-08-17
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- 18
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- Six Scattered Stories
- Airy Fairy Lilian
- B Is for Bedtime
- Complexity Theory for Social Work Practice
- April's Lady
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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. She later founded two software companies, Higher Order Software in 1976 and Hamilton Technologies in 1986, both in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Hamilton has published more than 130 papers, proceedings, and reports, about sixty projects, and six major programs. She coined the term "software engineering", stating, "I began to use the term 'software engineering' to distinguish it from hardware and other kinds of engineering, yet treat each type of engineering as part of the overall systems engineering process."