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Saturday, April 25, 2015

Apollo-era computer auction brings back memory to a pioneer in computer scientist - Science - The Boston Globe

Apollo-era computer auction brings back memory to a pioneer in computer scientist - The Boston Globe
"It took a woman to put the first man on the moon.
In the 1960s, Massachusetts Institute of Technology computer scientist Margaret Hamilton was in charge of developing the Apollo flight software.

"... Hamilton was a pioneer in the discipline, credited with coining the term “software engineering.”

"The software she designed overrode a command that had been put in manually because of incorrect instructions provided to the pilot. “If the software override had not been active, pre-programmed, tested and simulated, the ... landing might have been aborted” or crashed, according to NASA.



RR Auction - Block II Apollo Guidance computer display and keyboard (DSKY) unit





NASA - Margaret Hamilton, MIT computer scientist who oversaw development of Apollo flight software\



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