Margaret Hamilton, American Computer Scientist

Hamilton during her time as lead Apollo flight software designer. Margaret Heafield Hamilton (born August 17, 1936) is an American computer scientist, systems engineer, and business owner. She is credited with coining the term software engineering. Hamilton was Director of the Software Engineering Division of the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, which developed on-board flight software for the Apollo space program. 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 President Barack Obama for her work leading the development of on-board flight software for NASA's Apollo Moon missions

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