@MIT_CSAIL: Happy 90th birthday to Margaret Hamilton, an MIT computer scientist who helped design the flight software for the Apoll…
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MIT_CSAIL celebrates the 90th birthday of Margaret Hamilton, a pioneer in software engineering for the Apollo missions.
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Happy 90th birthday to Margaret Hamilton, an MIT computer scientist who helped design the flight software for the Apollo missions in the 1960s.
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