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Margaret Hamilton remembered as the first software engineer

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

Posts are paying tribute to Margaret Hamilton, the NASA software pioneer credited with coining the term 'software engineering'. She has recalled that when she first used the phrase, nobody had heard of it and it was treated as a joke for a long time. She led the onboard flight software work for the Apollo missions and is widely honoured for establishing programming as a recognised engineering discipline.

Why now: Posts using 'Vale' suggest tributes are circulating following reports of her death, though this is not confirmed in the available evidence.

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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 · 529

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