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Margaret Hamilton (software engineer, lead developer of the Apollo Guidance Computer powering the moon missions) (en.wikipedia.org)

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[-] velma@sh.itjust.works 22 points 20 hours ago

Hamilton has published more than 130 papers, proceedings, and reports, about sixty projects, and six major programs. She coined the term "software engineering", stating, "I began to use the term 'software engineering' to distinguish it from hardware and other kinds of engineering, yet treat each type of engineering as part of the overall systems engineering process."[1][2][3]

She coined the term "software engineering"! That's so cool

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