Margaret Hamilton (scientist)

Margaret Heafield Hamilton, (born August 17, 1936) is an American computer scientist, systems engineer, and business owner. She was Director of the Software Engineering Division of the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory. It developed on-board flight software for the Apollo space program.NASA Office of Logic Design "About Margaret Hamilton" (Last Revised: February 03, 2010)

On November 22, 2016, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by U.S. President Barack Obama for her work leading the development of on-board flight software for NASA's Apollo Moon missions.

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