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Margaret Hamilton
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American NASA scientist and mathematician
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Margaret Hamilton is an American computer scientist, mathematician, engineer, and businessperson. Born in Paoli on August 17, 1936, she is a citizen of the United States. Her educational background includes studies at Earlham College and the University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts.
Throughout her career, Hamilton has been employed by NASA, the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her primary field of work is computer science. She has received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Washington Award, and induction into the National Aviation Hall of Fame.
As an author, Hamilton has published works including *Six Scattered Stories*, *Airy Fairy Lilian*, *B Is for Bedtime*, *Complexity Theory for Social Work Practice*, and *April's Lady*.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 18
Top works
- Six Scattered Stories
- Airy Fairy Lilian
- B Is for Bedtime
- Complexity Theory for Social Work Practice
- April's Lady
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 27
- Total plays
- 67
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Colorimetric Method for Determination of Sugars and Related Substances
· 1956 · cited 42,283x
- A RATING SCALE FOR DEPRESSION
· 1960 · cited 25,386x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,938x
- TBtools: An Integrative Toolkit Developed for Interactive Analyses of Big Biological Data
· 2020 · cited 12,383x
- Seeking Qualitative Rigor in Inductive Research
· 2012 · cited 11,544x
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Encyclopedic overview
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."
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