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born 1936 United States

Margaret Elaine Hamilton (née Heafield; born August 17, 1936) is an American computer scientist, and was director of the Software Engineering Division of the MIT Instruction Laboratory, which developed on-board flight software for NASA's Apollo program. Hamilton coined the term "software engineering".

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Knowing this, I fought to legitimize software so that both software engineering and those who built it would receive the respect they deserved, so I began using the term “software engineering” to differentiate it from hardware and other forms of engineering.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Margaret Hamilton (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.