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Margaret Hamilton, the computer scientist who led the software team at MIT’s Instrumentation Laboratory during NASA’s Apollo program, has died at 90. Her work helped power Apollo 11’s moon landing and helped establish software engineering as a discipline.
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Margaret Hamilton, the computer scientist who led the software team at MIT’s Instrumentation Laboratory during NASA’s Apollo program, has died at 90. Her work helped power Apollo 11’s moon landing and helped establish software engineering as a discipline.
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