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Margaret Hamilto,born August 17, 1936,computer scientist who was the first computer software programmer;she created the term software engineer. and helped write the computer code for the command and lunar modules used on the Apollo missions to in the late '60s and early’70s

While studying mathematics and philosophy at Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana, she met James Hamilton, and they subsequently married. After graduating in 1958, she taught high-school mathematics for a short time.

Margaret accepted a job at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) while her husband attended Harvard Law School. At MIT she began programming software to predict the weather and did postgraduate work in meteorology.

Hamilton next worked at MIT’s Instrumentation Laboratory, which provided aeronautical technology for NASA. She led a team that was tasked with developing the software for the guidance and control systems of the in-flight command and lunar modules of the Apollo missions.

On November 22, 2016, Hamilton received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from president Barack Obama for her work leading to the development of on-board flight software for NASA's Apollo Moon missions.

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