Margaret Hamilton (Paoli, Indiana, August 17, 1936) is an American computer scientist, mathematician, and software engineer.
She was director of the Software Engineering Division of the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, where with her team she developed the “on-board” navigation software for the Apollo Space Program. In 1986, she became the founder and CEO of Hamilton Technologies, Inc. in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The company developed around the Universal Systems Language based on its “Development Before the Fact” (DBTF) paradigm for software design systems.
Although his idea was initially unwelcome, software eventually garnered the same respect as other disciplines.
