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Margaret Heafield Hamilton
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Margaret Heafield Hamilton
Watch me!
1960 - 1963
1964 - 1984
1985 - 2000's
"Software eventually and necessarily gained the same respect as any other discipline"
1936 - 1958
NASA... The Biggest Goal
Career in Science
Modern Days
Behind the school desk
Margaret Heafield Hamilton
Engineer and Computer scientist
Introductions
Margaret Heafield Hamilton was an American scientist that made the history of computers and space exploring with a special program to make possible the landing on the moon!
My life... in a few steps!
Credits and special honours
NASA and Softwares
From 1964 she's been engaged into the NASA at Stark Laboratory to start elaborate all the softwares necessary to the Apollo mission
During the mission of Apollo 11, a few minutes before the spaceship was about to land in the moon, the central computer stared overloading. Margaret then gave specific informations to the Astronauts crew to solve the problem based on the program that she personally wrote
Finally in 1985 she created another society called Hamilton Technologies
A Story of an Informatical Hero
Margaret Hamilton worked on new programs and hardwares, she also has founded the Higher Order Software where she developed the old programs that she created during her time at Apollo Project focusing on preventing computer errors during space operations
MIT Project
SAGE Project
From 1960, Margaret has worked as a programmer for a company that elaborate data for weather conditions
Also she was engaged by the US Defense Program creating for them some specific programs to intercept eventual Russian missles on the National Territory
1947 - 1960
1936 - 1947
Margaret Heafield Hamilton was born in Paoli in 1936. After her certificate at Hancock High school shw graduated in Mathematics and Philosophy at Earlham College.
After she moved to Boston she decided to continue her studies about Mathematics at Brandeis University.
A Special Gift... from Obama!
On 2016 she was invited by the President of the US to recive the Presidential Medal for Liberty!!
Books about her
- Space Engineer and Scientist - M.H.
- Margaret Hamilton (the biography)