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Margaret Hamilton, Apollo software pioneer, dies

Original: Margaret Hamilton, who led software development for the Apollo program, has died

Margaret Hamilton, the computer scientist who led the development of the onboard flight software for NASA's Apollo program, has died. Hamilton, who led the software engineering division at MIT's Instrumentation Laboratory, oversaw the code that guided Apollo spacecraft to the Moon, including the systems that helped Apollo 11 land safely. She is widely credited with popularizing the term 'software engineering' and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016.

Why now: News of the death of a pioneering figure in software engineering has prompted tributes and reflections on her legacy.

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