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Tributes flow for software engineering pioneer Margaret Hamilton

Original: Vale Margaret Hamilton. She was a Software Engineer. She was the _first_ Software Engineer because she defined the term,

Tributes are being paid to Margaret Hamilton, the American computer scientist credited with coining the term 'software engineering' during her work on NASA's Apollo guidance software. Admirers describe her as the field's first software engineer, recalling her own words that when she first used the phrase, nobody had heard of it before and it was treated as a joke for a long time.

Why now: News of her reported death has prompted tributes to her foundational role in creating software engineering as a discipline.

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• Vale Margaret Hamilton. She was a Software Engineer. She was the _first_ Software Engineer because she defined the term, Software Engineering: "When I first came up with the term, no one had heard of it before, at least in our world. It was an ongoing joke for a long time. They… · DamienWise@aus.social · 323

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