Margaret Heafield was born in 1936 in Paoli, Indiana, the daughter of a schoolteacher and a professor. She grew up in the ...

The groundbreaking researcher who helped create the field of software engineering and whose code helped land NASA win the 20th century space race, has died at 90.

Margaret Hamilton, a pioneering computer scientist who helped establish the field of software engineering and led the MIT team that developed the onboard flight software for NASA’s Apollo moon ...

Margaret Hamilton, the programmer whose code kept Apollo 11 from aborting its lunar landing in 1969 and who helped invent the ...

As Director of the Software Engineering Division at the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, Margaret Hamilton was responsible for ...

Margaret Hamilton, the pioneering computer software engineer who led the development of on-board flight software for NASA’s ...