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"In the early 1960s, Margaret Hamilton began her career as a pioneering
programmer and systems designer. And when NASA launched a series of missions
that led to the first astronauts on the moon, Hamilton was director of the
Software Engineering Division at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s
Instrumentation Laboratory, developing the mission’s onboard flight software.
That project included writing 40,000 lines of code for the moon-landing lunar
module, and its “mothership,” the orbiting craft carrying the command and
service modules.
And that was just the beginning of a career in computer science that has lasted
more than half a century — and still continues."
Via Steven Vaughan-Nichols, who wrote "She’s still alive so there’s still a
chance I could meet her. She’s literally the first software engineer."
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*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
