John ✦° on Mythryl: “Oh no 😥 From MIT: We’ve lost an icon. Margaret Hamilton, a computer…”

Oh no 😥 From MIT: We’ve lost an icon. Margaret Hamilton, a computer science pioneer best known for her work at MIT leading development of the flight software for the Apollo missions to the moon, has died at 90. Read about her legacy: news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

news.mit.eduMargaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90.

8/10/26, 6:55 pm0 reposts4 likes

Post