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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 .
On November 22, 2016, President Barack Obama awarded Margaret Hamilton the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor, for her invaluable contributions to modern technology and ...
Hidden Figures is a 2016 American biographical drama film directed by Theodore Melfi and written by Melfi and Allison Schroeder.It is loosely based on the 2016 non-fiction book of the same name by Margot Lee Shetterly about three female African-American mathematicians: Katherine Goble Johnson (Taraji P. Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer), and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monáe), who worked ...
Margaret Hamilton in 1969, standing next to listings of the software she and her MIT team produced for the Apollo project [101] Between 1961 and 1963, Margaret Hamilton began to study software reliability while she was working at the US SAGE air defense system. [ 102 ]
In 1982, Chambers married fellow Bard College alumna and actress Lauren Hamilton, who is the daughter of NASA scientist, mathematician and computer pioneer Margaret Hamilton and James Cox Hamilton, both of Cambridge, Massachusetts. [10]
Margaret Hamilton was in late 1960s Director of the Software Engineering Division of the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, which developed on-board flight software for the Apollo space program. MIT work prevented an abort of the Apollo 11 Moon landing by using robust architecture [1] .
Her early life Born on. Just because the Wicked Witch of the West melted at the end of The Wizard of Oz doesn’t mean character actress Margaret Hamilton did. In fact, she went on to have an ...
Margaret Hamilton – headed the team that wrote the onboard flight software for NASA's Apollo program [27] Helen Hansma – Researcher Emeritus and Associate Adjunct Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Santa Barbara; Robert M. Hirsch – former Chief Hydrologist and head of water science for the United States Geological Survey [28]