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Old 19-07-2019, 06:44 PM
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Margaret Hamilton - Apollo software pioneer. Short video.

Margaret Hamilton was director of the Software Engineering Division of the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, which developed the on-board Apollo
Guidance Computer (AGC) software.

She reflects on what was achieved in this 4m7s video published 1 July 2019 :-
https://youtu.be/k1Tuwvq86YA

Hamilton received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama for her work.

Picture, Margaret Hamilton stands by a pile of AGC source code printed on fan-fold paper.
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thank you enjoyed that
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