Margaret hamilton scientist facts
Scientist.
Margaret Hamilton (software engineer)
United States software engineer (born )
For other people named Margaret Hamilton, see Margaret Hamilton.
Margaret Elaine Hamilton (née&#;Heafield; born August 17, ) is an American computer scientist.
Margaret hamilton scientist facts
She was director of the Software Engineering Division of the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, which developed on-board flight software for NASA's Apollo program. She later founded two software companies—Higher Order Software in and Hamilton Technologies in , both in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Hamilton has published more than papers, proceedings, and reports, about sixty projects, and six major programs. She is one of the people credited with coining the term "software engineering".[1][2][3]
On November 22, , Hamilton received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from president Barack Obama for her work leading to the development of on-board flight software for NASA's Apollo Moon missions.[4]