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Apollo Software Pioneer Margaret Hamilton Dies
Apollo Software Pioneer Margaret Hamilton Dies at 90
TL;DRMargaret Hamilton, Apollo moon mission software pioneer, dies at 90.
Why it matters: She invented software engineering discipline; her work directly enabled human spaceflight.
"Margaret Hamilton, the groundbreaking researcher who helped create the field of software engineering and whose code helped land NASA's Apollo astronauts on the moon to win the 20th century space race, has died," writes longtime Slashdot reader Veeru. "She was 90." MIT News…
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