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Margaret Hamilton and the Code That Got Us to the Moon
Original: Before Computer Science Became a Boys' Club, Margaret Hamilton Wrote the Code
A new profile revisits Margaret Hamilton, the software engineer who led development of the onboard guidance code for NASA's Apollo missions, including the program that landed Apollo 11 on the Moon. The piece traces how she helped establish software engineering as a discipline before the field became heavily male-dominated, drawing renewed attention to her role in computing history.
Why now: Interest in the overlooked history of women in computing, sparked by a high-profile profile of Hamilton's Apollo-era work
Margaret HamiltonNASAApollo programMITNew York Times
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