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Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90


Margaret 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.

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