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Margaret Hamilton and the Code That Predated Computing's Boys' Club

Original: Before Computer Science Became a Boys' Club, Margaret Hamilton Wrote the Code

A New York Times piece revisits Margaret Hamilton, the NASA software engineer whose team wrote the onboard code for the Apollo missions, at a time when programming was far less male-dominated. The article traces how Hamilton led development of the software that guided Apollo spacecraft and helped land men on the Moon, and examines how computer science later became a field where women were increasingly pushed to the margins.

Why now: The feature has just been published by the New York Times, prompting renewed attention to Hamilton's legacy and the history of women in computing.

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• Before Computer Science Became a Boys' Club, Margaret Hamilton Wrote the Code · ChrisArchitect · 13

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