Margaret Hamilton: The First Software Engineer

Margaret Hamilton (nee Heafield) was born in Paoli, Indiana in 1936 and she completed her bachelor’s in Mathematics. While her initial plan was to pursue graduate studies but instead took up a job at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) which ended up being the starting point of her journey to joining the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) team and playing a key role on the moon landing.

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