6/22/2015 4:27 PM : Margaret Heafield Hamilton (born August 17, 1936) is a computer scientist, systems engineer, and business owner. She was Director of the Software Engineering Division of the #MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, which developed on-board flight software for the Apollo space program. Hamilton's team's work prevented an abort of the #Apollo 11 #moon landing. In 1986, she became the founder and CEO of Hamilton Technologies, Inc. in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The company was developed around the Universal... |