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Margaret HAMILTON
21st century
Fields:Computing
Born: 1936 in Paoli, Indiana (USA)
Main achievements: Development of on-board flight software for NASA's Apollo Moon missions.
Margaret Heafield Hamilton is an American computer scientist, systems engineer, and business owner.
She was Director of the Software Engineering Division of the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, which developed on-board flight software for the Apollo space program.
Margaret hamilton scientist biography report
In 1986, she became the founder and CEO of Hamilton Technologies, Inc., in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The company was developed around the Universal Systems Language based on her paradigm of Development Before the Fact (DBTF) for systems and software design.
Hamilton has published over 130 papers, proceedings, and reports about the 60 projects and six major programs in which she has been involved.
On November 22, 2016, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by U.S. President Barack Obam