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Magret Hamilton
Margret Hamilton is an American Computer Scientist, engineer, and business owner whom was born on August 17th, 1936 in Paoli, Indiana. Hamilton was originally known as Margret Heafield until she married. Hamiton is primarily known for her contribution to the Apollo 13 and lunar modules coding. She is also known for creating the term software engineer. She also lead a team of MIT software engineers that worked on the Apollo space program. Later on in 1986, she created her own company called Hamilton Technologies Inc based in Cambridge Massachusetts. Her company is located only a few blocks away from MIT, the place where her career as a software engineer began. Margret Hamilton is known as a pioneer in computer science through her many years of technological advancements.

Education
Hamilton graduated Highschool from Hancock High School in 1954, where she began to study Mathematics at the University of Michigan in 1954. From their Hamilton graduates with a BA in Mathematics with a minor in philosophy from Earlham College in1958. Earlham college is where she met her husband, James Hamilton.

SAGE Project
After moving to Boston, Massachusetts with her husband in 1960; Hamilton accepted a job at MIT, where she began working on software development that was intended to predict the weather. While she was at MIT she completed postgraduate studies in meteorology. From 1961 to 1963 she worked on the Semi-Automatic Ground Environment(SAGE)project at the MIT Lincoln Lab. She wrote the program software that was used to identify enemy aircraft.

During the process of her work on the SAGE project and her work at the Air Force Cambridge Laboratory, she showed her possibility of further advancement. Through her work she became a candidate to work at NASA on the Apollo flight program.

Apollo 11
Hamilton joined the researchers at the MIT Instrumentation  Lab, now formally known as the Independent Charles Stark Draper Labratory, who were assisted NASA with their Apollo 11 space mission. This team of researcher were supplying the scientists at NASA with technology designed to help with navigation. Later on, she led a team of scientists that was tasked for creating software to use in the Apollo program. One part of her team was designated to create in-flight software program in the lunar modules, and Apollo command-module; while another part of her team worked on developing software that would run a program that would detect any errors, and also a recovery software for the Apollo systems.

During the Apollo Mission, an error displayed stating that the Space Craft couldn't perform all of its task on time, so it postponed certain task while continuing on others. It began to display a priority alarm that warned the astronauts on-board to make a split-second landing decision. This was caused by a power supply that was connected to the lunar landers radar. Thanks to the software developed by Hamilton and her team; the Apollo space mission was able to continue on with the mission instead of having to abort.

Expertise
During the time, Hamilton was working on the Apollo 11 Space Mission; she had to design everything hands-on as Software engineering courses weren't a concept at the time. Computer science courses were considered uncommon, and were very difficult to find.

This is a list of Hamilton area of knowledge


 * Systems design
 * Software development
 * Formal Systems Modeling languages
 * System-oriented objects in systems designed for modeling and development
 * Seamless integration
 * Full life-cycle automation
 * Error detection and recovery techniques
 * Software reliability and software reuse

Achievements

 * Hamilton received the August Ada Lovelace Award from the Association of Women in Computing in 1986.
 * She also received NASA Exceptional Space Act Award for scientific and technical contributions in 2003.
 * In 2009, she was given the Outstanding Alumni Award from Earlham College
 * In 2016, President Barrack Obama presented her with the highest civilian honor in the United States which was the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
 * April 28, 2017, Hamilton received Computer History Museum Fellow Award.
 * The Women of NASA Lego set included a mini figure of Margret Hamilton. This set went on sale 2017
 * The Polytechnic University of Catalonia, she became an invested honoris causa in 2018

Personal Life
After her time at MIT, Hamilton went on to found her own company named Hamilton Technologies Inc in March 1986. Prior to her own business she was CEO of Higher Order Software (HOS) from 1973 to 1984.

Her husband, James Cox Hamilton studied at Harvard, where he became a lawyer that worked at the American Civil Liberties Union. James Hamilton also took on many pro bono cases throughout his career.

Together they had a daughter, Lauren Hamilton, Hamiltons daughter was known to accompany her at her lab during the Apollo 11 mission. She was known to sleep on the floor of the lab, while her mother continued her work on the programs of the mission. Lauren Hamilton went on to give Margret Hamilton, and James Hamilton two grandchildren.

Her daughter later married billionaire James Cox Chamber on October 9, 1982. They later divorce and Lauren Hamilton marries Richard David Selesnick,