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Margaret Elaine Hamilton (née Heafield; born August 17, 1936) is an American computer scientist. She was director of the Software Engineering Division of the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory , which developed on-board flight software for NASA 's Apollo program .
Meet Margaret Hamilton, the woman behind the computer program that put a man on the moon. According to Vox, ...
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 ...
Margaret Hamilton in 1979 When she wasn't acting or spending time with her son, Hamilton served on the Beverly Hills Board of Education from 1948 to 1951 and taught Sunday school.
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] .
Margaret Hamilton is also notable for her contributions to computer and aerospace engineering in the 1970s. Hamilton, the director of the Software Engineering Division of the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory at the time, is famous for her work in writing the on-board guidance code for the Apollo 11 mission.
Margaret Brainard Hamilton (December 9, 1902 – May 16, 1985) was an American actress, vaudevillian [1] and educator, whose fifty-year career in entertainment spanned theatre, film, radio and television. [2]
Clara Landsberg, a close colleague and longtime family friend, studied in Europe with Margaret Hamilton for a summer in 1899 and was to become her lifetime companion.The daughter of a Reform rabbi from Rochester, New York, and a graduate of Bryn Mawr College, Landsberg became a resident at Hull House, where she was in charge of its evening education programs and shared a room with Alice Hamilton.