5/30/2023 0 Comments Margaret hamilton nasaRather than return to study for her PhD at Brandeis University, Massachusetts, she joined MIT’s Instrumentation Lab (now the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory), which was at that point working on the Apollo space mission (Creighton 2016), and in the summer of 1968 she began writing software for the program. It was this fascination and her expertise in systems programming that later made Margaret Hamilton the perfect candidate for the position of lead Apollo flight software designer. That was one of my very first experiences in this regard… from day one, it’s been a fascination - the subject of errors…” (Hamilton 2001). As Hamilton said: “I was and still am very interested in what causes errors and how to avoid them throughout. She had to learn her trade hands-on as no taught software courses existed and among her credits, she promoted the term “software engineering” to provide legitimacy to the science and set it on a par with other types of engineering (Cameron 2018).īetween 19 Hamilton worked as a programmer on the US Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) air defence system at MIT’s Lincoln Lab (Mindell 2008) and this is where she became interested in and learned much about the reliability of software (Spicer 2017), being able to make a previously inoperative radar system actually work. Lorenz, the pioneer of chaos theory, programming early computers to predict weather. In 1959 she began work in the meteorology department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for Professor Edward N. After high school she studied mathematics at the University of Michigan and graduated with a BA in mathematics and a minor in philosophy from Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana in 1958. Margaret Heafield Hamilton (-present) was born in Paoli, Indiana (Welch & Lamphier, 2019).
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