🔶 Margaret Hamilton, the programmer of NASA's Apollo project, has died

🔶 Margaret Hamilton, the programmer of NASA's Apollo project, has died

Margaret Hamilton, chief computer scientist for NASA's Apollo program, has died at age 90, according to MIT. Hamilton played a crucial role in NASA's Apollo lunar mission program and is considered one of the pioneers of computer science.

According to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Hamilton died on September 30 (October 8).

In this context, Isaacman, head of NASA's space organization, mentioned Hamilton as a pioneer "whose activity contributed to the realization of the Apollo program and the first human journeys to the moon" through the publication of a post on the X social network.

Olivier de Vock, head of the Department of Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, also praised Hamilton's achievements and said: "To say that Margaret Hamilton was a pioneer, or to say that she was ahead of her time, is a huge understatement." He went on to say that Hamilton was a software developer at a time when this field was still in its early stages of formation and said: "Hamilton not only wrote the development codes himself, but also headed a team that developed one of the most complex systems that humanity has ever built using this new technology."

After studying mathematics, Hamilton moved to Boston, Massachusetts in 1959, and from 1965 worked at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology developing computer software for a planned moon landing.