Margaret H. Hamilton was born in Paoli, Indiana, August 17, 1936. As of today, she’s 86 years old. She studied mathematics and philosophy at Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana. She taught high-school mathematics in 1958. After this, she accepted a job at MIT. Hamilton was the recipient of many awards, such as the Presidential Medal of Freedom and NASA’s Exceptional Space Act Award. She has been a prominent figure in the development of Computer Science as it is today. She was one of the people who wrote the computer code for the commands and modules used on the Apollo mission to the moon. She programmed software to predict the weather and did work in meteorology at MIT. In the 1960s, she was involved in the Semi-Automatic Ground Environment, which was the U.S first air defense system. She also designed and programmed software for a program to identity enemy aircraft. At MIT, she was a part of an organization which made and provided aeronautical technology for NASA. She co-founded the company Higher Order Software and then founded her own company Hamilton Technologies, 10 years later.
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