Margaret Hamilton, Apollo software pioneer who coined 'software engineering', dies at 90
JeremyCMorgan · x · 2026-10-13
Margaret Hamilton, the computing pioneer who led software development for NASA's Apollo program, has died at 90, MIT News reports. Over two decades at MIT she forged new paths in computer science, leading the team that programmed the first computers to take humans to the moon — work that helped define software engineering as a discipline.
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