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Hamilton Class - Year Five - Mr Brunsden

Margaret Hamilton 

American computer scientist

 

“Don’t let fear get in the way and don’t be afraid to say, “I don’t know” or “I don’t understand” - no question is a dumb question.” – Margaret Hamilton.

 

 

Margaret Hamilton is an American computer scientist. She was one of the first ever computer software programmers. Hamilton was responsible for the software that allowed astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to land on the Moon. She is also credited with inventing the term ‘software engineering.’

 

Born on the 17th of August 1936, in Paoli, Indiana. She attended Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana where, in 1958, she graduated in with a bachelor’s degree in mathematics. In the same year she married James Hamilton, and they moved to Boston, Massachusetts.

 

The following year Margaret took a job as a programmer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Using computers in the meteorology department, she developed a program that was able to predict the weather. In 1961 Hamilton moved on to the Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) project, during which she wrote software that searched for enemy aircraft. Later that year MIT became part of the Apollo program, the U.S. mission to put astronauts on the Moon. A few years later, Hamilton was put in charge of the onboard flight software for Apollo. The software made sure the lunar module (the spacecraft that landed on the Moon) and the command module (the craft that carried the astronauts to and from Earth) worked successfully.

 

After Apollo, Hamilton worked on the United States’ first space station and on the space shuttle program. She became head of the software engineering division in MIT’s Instrumentation Laboratory. Hamilton eventually left MIT and started her own software company in the mid-1970s. She founded Hamilton Technologies in 1986.

 

Hamilton has received numerous awards and honours, including the 1986 Augusta Ada Lovelace Award for Women in Computing. In 2003 she was awarded the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Exceptional Space Act Award. In 2016 President Barack Obama awarded her the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honour.

Class Teacher - Mr Brunsden

Learning Support Assistants - Mrs Whittingham and Mrs Baker

 

PE is on Thursdays (outdoor) and Tuesdays (indoor)

Outdoor Learning is on Fridays.  

 

Class Email: hamilton@springmeadow.essex.sch.uk

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