Hi M,

My blog continues to be creative & generative (and may help get me the MIT faculty position). I think I'll post about Margaret Hamilton who got a math and philosophy degree at Earlham in the 50s (she was born in 1936) and whose code writing - early rudimentary computer programming as the head of the Apollo software project {what a trip!} - helped put men on the moon in 1969 ...

#OTD 1969 Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin & Michael Collins, safely return to Earth. Cue Apollo 11 highlights packagehttps://t.co/0y3xrO4JCy

— BBC Archive (@BBCArchive) July 24, 2016

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https://twitter.com/BBCArchive/status/757245219645562880.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPLDZMjgaf8
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mE0GVrXjOYQ
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWcITjqZtpU
Margaret Hamilton at 3:10 live ...
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Amazing! ... I've blogged about Maggie Hamilton, scientist, as a kind of hippie before {there were a lot! of them in Cambridge, MA, at MIT in the 60s and 70s!} - 

Pupa: Software Engineer to the Moon, I really like and find funny the shoes in this portrait of Margaret Hamilton - http://www.wired.com/2015/10/margaret-hamilton-nasa-apollo/ - who wrote the code that put a man on the moon, and her take-no-prisoners hippy look ... among the modern abstract art ... :)

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/10/pupa-i-really-like-and-find-funny-shoes.html and 

Moon rocks: Margaret Hamilton wrote the code for the Apollo Mission putting a man on the moon-Can the Open Band do this to you Scottish Country Dancing?, This Tweet to Scottish_Country_Dancing at World University?, Margaret Hamilton may have had Quaker roots since she went to Earlham College in Indiana, every-photo-taken-apollo-moon-missions-are-now-online

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/10/moon-rocks-margaret-hamilton-wrote-code.html.

(She has some Quaker roots too, culturally).


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Articles about Margaret Hamilton ..

https://medium.com/@verne/margaret-hamilton-the-engineer-who-took-the-apollo-to-the-moon-7d550c73d3fa

http://www.vox.com/2015/5/30/8689481/margaret-hamilton-apollo-software

http://futurism.com/margaret-hamilton-the-untold-story-of-the-woman-who-took-us-to-the-moon/

http://authors.library.caltech.edu/5456/1/hrst.mit.edu/hrs/apollo/public/conference1/hamilton-intro.htm


video:

http://time.com/3948364/moon-landing-apollo-11-margaret-hamilton/