Margaret Hamilton
Margaret Hamilton was educated at Earlham College in
Indiana, earning an AB in Mathematics. She then moved to MIT, doing her postgraduate
work in meteorology. From MIT she moved to the Lincoln Laboratory, working on the
pioneering SAGE system and then on to MIT/IL. She was initially hired as a
programmer but moved rapidly into the systems design area, taking on additional
responsibility after Apollo 8 as the person in charge of all Command Module
software. By the end of the Apollo program, Hamilton was responsible for all onboard
flight software. After the Apollo program, she worked on the Space Shuttle and
Skylab prgrams. After leaving MIT/IL, by that time Draper Lab, she moved into the
private sector, forming her own compnay, Higher Order software to further develop ideas
about error prevention and fault tolerance emerging from her experience at MIT/IL.
In 1986, Margaret Hamilton was awarded the Ada Lovelace Award by the Association for Women
in Computing.
Margaret Hamilton was a participant in AGC project conference 1 and conference 2.
-- A.B., Jan, 2002.
