Margaret Hamilton, Apollo Software Pioneer, Dies at 90

Margaret Hamilton, who coined the term ‘software engineering’ and led the development of onboard flight software for NASA’s Apollo program, has died at 90. Her work was instrumental in the success of the Apollo 11 Moon landing. Hamilton was recognized with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016 and was featured in the LEGO ‘Women of NASA’ set. She began her career working with Edward Lorenz at MIT, contributing to early chaos theory research by programming the LGP-30 computer. Her contributions laid the groundwork for modern software engineering.