Hamilton's team wrote the software that kept Apollo 11's Moon landing going when its computer overloaded. She died on ...

Margaret Hamilton, who led the MIT team that wrote Apollo's onboard flight software, died September 30 at age 90, MIT ...

Margaret Hamilton, a computing pioneer whose software was key in taking the Apollo 11 astronauts to the moon, has died at age 90. Her death was announced by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...

The pioneering MIT computer scientist helped establish software engineering as a discipline and played a critical role in one ...

Margaret Hamilton, who led the 100-person team that wrote the onboard software for the Apollo missions, guiding Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to a safe landing on the moon, died Sept. 30.

The groundbreaking researcher who helped create the field of software engineering and whose code helped land NASA win the 20th century space race, has died at 90.

Overview of the Obituary and Historical Significance1.1 Passing of a Pioneer in Computer ScienceOn September 30, 2026, Margaret Elaine Hamilton (née Heafield), a computer scientist who led the develop ...

At MIT, Margaret Hamilton led the development of the Apollo onboard software and established software development as an ...

Early Apollo Missions: Earth Orbit Apollo missions flew unmanned until October 11, 1968, when Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele and ...

Margaret Hamilton, a groundbreaking computer scientist who led the team that created the onboard flight software for NASA’s ...