{"id":920529,"date":"2026-10-08T10:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T10:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/920529\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T10:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T10:48:09","slug":"moment-margaret-hamilton-receives-presidential-medal-of-honour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/920529\/","title":{"rendered":"Moment Margaret Hamilton receives presidential medal of honour"},"content":{"rendered":"

The computer scientist behind groundbreaking research that helped land Nasa’s astronauts on the Moon, has died aged 90.<\/p>\n

Margaret Hamilton was a trailblazer in her field, leading the team who developed the software for Nasa’s Apollo missions, which coined the term “software engineering”.<\/p>\n

And in 2016, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Honor – the nation’s highest civilian honour – by Barack Obama in a ceremony at the White House.<\/p>\n

“To say Hamilton was a pioneer – to say she was ahead of her time – would be a dramatic understatement,” MIT said in its statement announcing Hamilton’s passing, before acknowledging that she was a software engineer before it was mainstream.<\/p>\n

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