Before Computer Science Became a Boys’ Club, Margaret Hamilton Wrote the Code

The woman who helped put astronauts on the moon was a software engineer when the field was not prestigious or lucrative.

Margaret Hamilton, who led a software team for NASA’s Apollo program, dies at 90

Margaret Hamilton, a groundbreaking computer scientist who led the team that created the onboard flight software for NASA’s moon-bound Apollo program, has died.

Woman whose software guided the Apollo missions has died

She was the first female programmer hired to work on the Apollo project, housed at MIT’s Instrumentation Laboratory, in 1965.
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Margaret Hamilton, Apollo 11 Software Pioneer Who Saved the Moon Landing, Dies at 90

Margaret Hamilton, the programmer whose code kept Apollo 11 from aborting its lunar landing in 1969 and who helped invent the ...
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Atari Brings Back The 800XL Retro Home Computer

Atari is bringing back a classic retro home computer in the form of The 800XL, presented as a modernized mini console with ...
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Computer scientist Margaret Hamilton, the brain behind Apollo 11 flight software, dies at 90

Margaret Hamilton’s work on the Apollo mission was not just critical to the Moon landing, but also to the development of ...