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Before Computer Science Became a Boys' Club, Margaret Hamilton Wrote the Code
Original: Before Computer Science Became a Boys’ Club, Margaret Hamilton Wrote the Code
The New York Times is revisiting the career of Margaret Hamilton, the software engineer whose code was central to NASA's Apollo moon landings. The piece traces how she helped pioneer software engineering in the 1960s, before computer science became a male-dominated field, and examines what her story reveals about how women were pushed out of the profession as it grew.
Why now: Renewed interest in women's overlooked contributions to science and technology has brought Hamilton's pioneering role back into the conversation.
Margaret HamiltonNASAThe New York TimesApollo program
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- Before Computer Science Became a Boys’ Club, Margaret Hamilton Wrote the Code · The New York Times
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