Margaret Hamilton, trailblazer whose software powered Apollo 11 moon landing, dies at 90
MIT computer scientist led development of software for moon mission and earned Presidential Medal of Freedom
TL;DR
- Margaret Hamilton, a computer pioneer, died at 90.
- She developed the software for the Apollo 11 moon landing.
- Hamilton worked at MIT, initially writing software to detect enemy aircraft.
- Her error detection and recovery software saved the Apollo 11 mission from an emergency.
- She received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016.