Margaret Hamilton, the Apollo software pioneer who helped put humans on the Moon and shaped software engineering, has died at 90.
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Margaret Hamilton, the software leader behind NASA’s Apollo program, has died at 90. Coverage highlights her role in establishing software engineering as a rigorous discipline and in proving that mission-critical software needs fault tolerance, testing, and human-factor safeguards. CIOs should care because her work remains a blueprint for building reliable systems under high risk.