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This coding legend knows the secret to fixing Big Tech’s most pervasive problem

09/01/2020

Facebook, Google, and Amazon have a lot to learn from Margaret Hamilton, who coined the term “software engineering” while she was working on the code for the Apollo 11 mission to the moon. There were quite a few grandiose tributes to the 50th anniversary of the moon landing throughout the United States...
Facebook, Google, and Amazon have a lot to learn from Margaret Hamilton, who coined the term “software engineering” while she was working on the code for the Apollo 11 mission to the moon. There were quite a few grandiose tributes to the 50th anniversary of the landing throughout the United States last year. But for sheer staggering scale, it’d be hard to top Google’s tribute to the woman whose code made Apollo 11 possible: Margaret Hamilton. Google’s salute to Hamilton, a moonlit portrait made out of over 100,000 solar mirrors strategically planted in the Mojave Desert, visible from several thousand feet in the air, covered considerably more terrain than New York City’s Central Park.Read Full Story
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