Margaret Hamilton, a pioneering computer scientist who helped save the Apollo 11 moon mission​, has died.

Margaret Hamilton, who has died aged 90, wrote the software code that helped to land Nasa’s Apollo 11 astronauts on the Moon on July 20 1969 and see them returned safely to Earth four days later.

On July 20, 1969, just seven minutes before humanity’s first moon landing, an alarm suddenly sounded aboard the U.S. Apollo ...

Margaret Hamilton, the computer scientist who led Apollo flight software development, has died aged 90. Her work helped Apollo 11's computer manage overloads during the lunar landing.

At MIT, Margaret Hamilton led the development of the Apollo onboard software and established software development as an independent engineering discipline.

Margaret Hamilton, the 'software engineering' pioneer behind Apollo 11's flight software, has died aged 90, leaving a lasting legacy in space and computing.

Margaret Hamilton, who coined the term “software engineering” and led the development of on-board flight software for NASA’s Apollo program in the 1960s, died last week at the age of 90. A recipient ...

Margaret Hamilton’s work on the Apollo mission was not just critical to the Moon landing, but also to the development of software engineering as a field.