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2 Jahre her • •

Velocirooster adminensis
2 Jahre her • •

Happy International Women's Day! Just a reminder that Margaret Hamilton is a total badass and early innovator in the field of Software Engineering. Her pioneering work in task prioritization allowed the Apollo 11 moon landing to proceed even when the onboard computer became overwhelmed with too many tasks at a critical point in the mission. The software she wrote was flexible enough to ignore low priority tasks so that the computer could focus only on the tasks necessary for landing the LEM safely on the moon. Without her task prioritization routines in place, it's likely that the landing would have had to have been aborted.

A black and white photo from the 60s showing Margaret Hamilton in the Apollo Command Module. She's lying on her back as the astronauts would be at launch and flipping a switch on the huge instrument panel above her while smiling for the camera. She's a young woman with long straight hair and glasses. She's wearing a long-sleeve dress with a squiggly pattern. She projects the ease and confidence of someone who is having a blast being completely in her element with mastery of her domain.

Margaret Hamilton in a black and white photo from 1969. She's standing next to a stack of papers containing the code that she and her team wrote for the Apollo project. The stack is as tall as she is and she's holding onto it to keep it from toppling over. She's a young woman with long straight hair and glasses and she's wearing a striped long-sleeve dress and sandals.

Frank Wittemeier mag das.

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