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Margaret Hamilton Research Paper

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My role model is a now seventy-nine-year-old woman named Margaret Hamilton. Her name isn't very well known, and that's part of the reason why she is such a role model to me. The year is 1969, and American has a national mission: to defy the odds and land on the moon. Margaret Hamilton, a thirty-three-year-old woman with a BA in mathematics and a minor in philosophy is hired to NASA to work alongside other coders to help program the Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) that would guide both Apollo 11 and mankind to their "one giant step." Keep in mind that this was a time when computer science and software engineering were not clearly defined, and this lead to a lot of programming being learned through hands-on experience. This also meant that all

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