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Margaret Hamilton

Hamilton led work on Apollo flight software and contributed to software engineering, with earlier experience on weather and SAGE software.

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Hamilton led work on Apollo flight software and contributed to software engineering, with earlier experience on weather and SAGE software.

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Reliability requires attention to behavior under faults and overload as well as normal execution. Her leadership belongs to the history of a large engineering team.

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  1. Hamilton led work on Apollo flight software and contributed to software engineering, with earlier experience on weather and SAGE software.

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Sources

  1. Margaret Hamilton — Computer History Museum

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