(CBS) - Imagine the moment as Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were descending toward the moon, a few minutes away from landing in the Sea of Tranquility. Civilization's most historic event was within ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Meet Margaret H. Hamilton, the woman who led man to the moon. On July 20th, 1969, minutes before ...
When Margaret Hamilton was a child, her father used to take her on long drives through Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. They would talk the whole time about “philosophy—related things,” the software ...
A photograph authentically shows pioneering software engineer Margaret Hamilton standing next to the code she wrote by hand that took humanity to the moon in 1969. A black-and-white photograph that ...
There were quite a few grandiose tributes to the 50th anniversary of the moon landing throughout the United States last year. But for sheer staggering scale, it’d be hard to top Google’s tribute to ...
When Margaret H. Hamilton started writing computer code at MIT as a young working mother in 1960, the term “software engineer” did not exist, and programmers occupied the fringes of a nascent ...
The first footsteps on the moon belonged to two men, but they may never have made it there if not for Margaret Hamilton. The software engineer developed the onboard computer programs that powered NASA ...
Margaret H. Hamilton, a pioneering computer scientist and former head of the Software Engineering Division of MIT's Instrumentation Laboratory who led the development of on-board flight software for ...
If you were to create a short list of women who influenced software engineering, one of the first picks would be Margaret Hamilton. The Apollo 11 source code lists her title as “PROGRAMMING LEADER”.