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Margaret Elaine Hamilton ( née Heafield; born August 17, 1936) is an American computer scientist. She was director of the Software Engineering Division of the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, which developed on-board flight software for NASA 's Apollo program.
Margaret Brainard Hamilton (December 9, 1902 – May 16, 1985) was an American actress and educator. She was best known for her portrayal of the Wicked Witch of the West and her Kansas counterpart Almira Gulch in the 1939 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film The Wizard of Oz. [1]
May 9, 2024 · Margaret Hamilton (born August 17, 1936, Paoli, Indiana, U.S.) is an American computer scientist who was one of the first computer software programmers; she created the term software engineer to describe her work.
Actress: The Wizard of Oz. Margaret Hamilton was born December 9, 1902 in Cleveland, Ohio, to Jennie (Adams) and Walter Hamilton. She later attended Hathaway Brown School in Shaker Heights, Ohio, and practiced acting doing children's theater while a Junior League of Cleveland member.
Aug 17, 2016 · One of the many contributors to this effort was Margaret Hamilton, a computer scientist who led the Software Engineering Division of the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, which in 1961 contracted with NASA to develop the Apollo program’s guidance system.
Mar 10, 2022 · That Margaret Hamilton was deservedly renowned for her achievements in computing is clear: In 2016, President Obama awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and in 2017 she became a Fellow of the Computer History Museum.
Mar 14, 2019 · Margaret Hamilton Led the NASA Software Team That Landed Astronauts on the Moon. Apollo’s successful computing software was optimized to deal with unknown problems and to interrupt one task...
