Margaret Hamilton, lead software engineer, Project Apollo
by Volker Weber
In the photo above, she is standing in front of the printouts of the code for the Apollo guidance system, a lot of which she wrote and which she oversaw. She was all of 31 when the Apollo 11 lunar module landed on the moon, running her code.
A lovely reminder that women create.
Comments
À Nice book To read: The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
Walter Isaacson (Author).
Ludwig Deruyck, 2014-12-11
Another recommended reading:
Digital Apollo
Human and Machine in Spaceflight
By David A. Mindell
http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/digital-apollo
Uwe Brahm, 2014-12-11
There's a nice link also to the story of Grace Hopper (compiler genius). What a brain!
Andrew Magerman, 2014-12-11