Margret Hamilton, Pioneering Software Engineer, Dies Aged 90

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Margret Hamilton, Pioneering Software Engineer, Dies Aged 90, according to Hackaday. As Director of the Software Engineering Division at the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, Margret Hamilton was responsible for the software for the Apollo program. The code she was responsible for ran the lunar lander, and brought multiple missions successfully to the surface of Luna and back to orbital rendezvous.

Hamilton, with the code that put men on the moon. If you call yourself a software engineer, you have her to thank.

Hamilton didn’t just help define the field through her efforts, she literally coined the term while at NASA in an effort to get “mere” programming taken more seriously. Suffice to say, that ambition was realized, and few see programmer as a low-status career these days.