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--- title: Margaret Hamilton type: Person tags: [nasa, software-engineering, apollo] --- # Margaret Hamilton Pioneering software engineer who led the team that developed the Apollo flight software. ## Observations - [name] Margaret Hamilton - [role] Software engineer and systems designer - [expertise] Software engineering - [expertise] Systems design - [expertise] Error detection and recovery - [fact] Coined the term "software engineering" - [fact] Her software prevented an abort of the Apollo 11 moon landing - [achievement] Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016 ## Relations - works_at [[MIT Instrumentation Laboratory]] - works_at [[NASA]] - created [[Apollo Flight Software]]