Reading up on Margaret Hamilton
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- Margaret Hamilton has died
Margaret Hamilton, who led MIT's Apollo spacecraft software team and whose pioneering work enabled the moon landings, has died at 87, leaving a legacy that shaped modern software engineering practices.
- The Woman Whose Software Guided the Apollo Missions Has Died
Margaret Hamilton, the first female programmer hired for the Apollo project at MIT, passed away at the age of 90.