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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Margaret Hamilton, a pioneer of software engineering who led NASA's in-flight software team for the Apollo mission, was born #OTD in 1936. 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬 Image: NASA

A black and white photo of Margaret Hamilton standing next to a stack of printouts, the code that she and her team wrote for the Apollo Lunar Module. She is wearing a short, striped dress and sandals. Hamilton has long hair past her shoulders and wears glasses. She is looking at the stack of code, which is taller than her, smiling and steadying it with her hands.

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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

“Here, Margaret is shown standing beside listings of the software developed by her and the team she was in charge of, the LM [lunar module] and CM [command module] on-board flight software team.” A 2016 MIT News story with background on the iconic photo. (2/n) news.mit.edu/2016/scene-a...

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Scene at MIT: Margaret Hamilton’s Apollo code

A brief history of the famous 1969 Margaret Hamilton photo featuring the Apollo software she and her team developed for NASA, sending humans to the moon. Article includes rarely-seen outtakes of Hamil...

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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

A lesser known aspect of Hamilton's career: before NASA she worked with mathematician and meteorologist Edward Lorenz. From 1959-1961 she programmed weather simulations on his LGP-30 computer. Those projects were the precursors to his famous 1963 paper that marked the birth of chaos theory. (3/n)

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The Hidden Heroines of Chaos

Two women programmers played a pivotal role in the birth of chaos theory. Their previously untold story illustrates the changing status of computation in science.

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