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Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90

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Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90

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Programming@programming.devEnglish · 9 days ago

Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90.

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Ahh, shame. Next machine i set up will have something with her name as the hostname. Already got turing, ada (lovelace), and bernlee.
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  Make room for Grace Hopper in there, too!

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