To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11, Google is shining light to one of the women whose work made the historic moon landing a success: Margaret Hamilton. On Thursday, July 18, the tech ...

There were quite a few grandiose tributes to the 50th anniversary of the moon landing throughout the United States last year. But for sheer staggering scale, it’d be hard to top Google’s tribute to ...

This week marks the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing, and Google celebrated the occasion by creating a massive 1.4-square-mile portrait of the Apollo software developer Margaret Hamilton ...

The director of software engineering at MIT's Instrumentation Laboratory, Hamilton was a pioneer of computer science in a transformative era, and on a transformative mission, in human history. "The ...

Margaret Hamilton stands next to a stack of program listings from the Apollo Guidance Computer in a photograph taken in 1969. Wikimedia Commons On July 20, 1969, as the lunar module, Eagle, was ...

If you were to create a short list of women who influenced software engineering, one of the first picks would be Margaret Hamilton. The Apollo 11 source code lists her title as “PROGRAMMING LEADER”.