The groundbreaking researcher who helped create the field of software engineering and whose code helped land NASA win the 20th century space race, has died at 90.

Margaret Hamilton, the computer scientist who led the team that wrote the onboard flight software for NASA’s crewed Apollo missions, died on Sept. 30, 2026, at a hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Pakistan, Oct. 9 -- American computer scientist Margaret Hamilton, who led the development of software for NASA's Apollo lunar programme, has died at 90. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...

Margaret Hamilton, the pioneering computer scientist who led software development for NASA’s Apollo program and helped build the technology that took humans to the moon, has died at the age of 90.

Given the avalanche of media coverage this past week celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, if you didn’t know before, you surely now know that intense competition (with the ...

This week marks the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing, and Google celebrated the occasion by creating a massive 1.4-square-mile portrait of the Apollo software developer Margaret Hamilton ...