Margaret Hamilton
Birth: August 17, 1936
Death: N/A
Academic Events:
- Studied math at University of Michigan & Earlham College
- Received a Bachelor's degree
- Developed weather prediction software at MIT
- Worked at Lincoln Laboratories on the US SAGE air defense system
- Created flight software for NASA
- Served as MIT Instrumentation Laboratory Director of the Software Engineering Division
Main Contribution to Computer Science:
- First programmer hired to develop on-board flight software for the Apollo program at NASA
Other Contributions to Computer Science:
- Her software led to the development of the Universal Systems Language
- Came up with the name for 'software engineering'
- Worked on weather prediction software using the Librascope LGP-30 and PDP-1 computers
Fun Fact:
- The software she developed assisted in Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin's moon landing in 1969.
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