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A MAN may have been first on the moon – but it was actually a woman who put him there. Trailblazer Margaret Hamilton led the team that developed on-board software used in Neil Armstrong and Buzz ...

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Margaret Hamilton, the visionary computer scientist whose pioneering code guided NASA’s Apollo missions to the moon and established software engineering as a respected discipline, has passed at the ...

Pioneering computer scientist led the development of the software for Nasa's Apollo mission and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

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Hamilton's team wrote the software that kept Apollo 11's Moon landing going when its computer overloaded. She died on September 30, aged 90.

Margaret Hamilton, who coined the term “software engineering” and led the development of on-board flight software for NASA’s Apollo program in the 1960s, died last week at the age of 90. A recipient ...

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At MIT, Margaret Hamilton led the development of the Apollo onboard software and established software development as an independent engineering discipline.