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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 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.
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]
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.
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 5, 2020 · Learn how Margaret Hamilton and her team of engineers built the software for the Apollo 11 mission that landed mankind on the Moon. -- The Apollo 11 moon landing was about the astronauts, mission...
May 15, 2022 · The first computer programmer at MIT hired for the Apollo missions, Margaret Hamilton helped develop the software that landed humans on the moon. Margaret Hamilton was a young mother when MIT hired her to write software in 1959.
Mar 10, 2022 · After careful review and annotation, the transcript and video of this oral history are now available online. Below is a series of short selections from this oral history, highlights of Margaret Hamilton telling her remarkable story in her own words.
Margaret Hamilton. 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.
Interviewed by David C. Brock on 2017-04-13 in Boston, MA X8164.2017 © Computer History Museum In this oral history, Margaret Hamilton describes her life and career in computing.
