Margaret H. Hamilton Quotes
I hope that we continue with exploration.
Chu, Jennifer. "Q&A: Margaret Hamilton on the Apollo Program and the Origins of Software Engineering." MIT News, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 17 Aug. 2016.
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Margaret Heafield Hamilton is an American computer scientist, systems engineer, and business owner. She was director of the Software Engineering Division of the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, which developed on-board flight software for NASA's Apollo program. She later founded two software companies—Higher Order Software in 1976 and Hamilton Technologies in 1986, both in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
