Apollo software engineer Margaret Hamilton receives Presidential Medal of Freedom

Amid all the publicity given to the more "famous" people recently awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom was Margaret Hamilton. She invented the term “software engineer” starting her career as a computer programmer at MIT in the 1960s. In August 1961, NASA issued a contract to MIT to design the Apollo spacecraft’s guidance and navigational system. Hamilton presided over the in-flight software group. You can read more about her work on NASA's website.