A photograph authentically shows pioneering software engineer Margaret Hamilton standing next to the code she wrote by hand that took humanity to the moon in 1969. A black-and-white photograph that ...

A self-taught programmer who rose to the top of the software engineering division at MIT, Hamilton developed the building blocks for (and even coined the term) software engineering. On November 22, ...

There were quite a few grandiose tributes to the 50th anniversary of the moon landing throughout the United States last year. But for sheer staggering scale, it’d be hard to top Google’s tribute to ...

(CBS) - Imagine the moment as Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were descending toward the moon, a few minutes away from landing in the Sea of Tranquility. Civilization's most historic event was within ...

The winner of the Museum’s 2025 Michael Collins Trophy for Lifetime Achievement: Software engineer Margaret Hamilton Margaret Hamilton’s work on Project Apollo was crucial to the success of the Moon ...