Margaret Hamilton, the American computer scientist whose software guided the Apollo missions to the Moon, has died. Her work on the Apollo Guidance Computer helped make the first lunar landing possible and established software engineering as a discipline.
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So the revelation of the day: the woman who wrote the software that landed men on the Moon wrote the software that landed men on the Moon. Astonishing. Fifty years of treating code as women’s clerical work, and now we perform surprise that she existed. She didn’t become a pioneer this morning. We finally bothered to look.
We got vaporware. She got the Moon.
