Apollo software pioneer Margaret Hamilton reported dead at 90

Margaret Hamilton, who led a team designing software for Nasa’s Apollo missions, has died aged 90, Dutch news agency ANP reports, citing US media including CNN. ANP did not specify the date or cause of death [1].

Hamilton joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1959 and later led the Software Engineering Division of its Instrumentation Laboratory. The laboratory received a Nasa contract in 1961, and Hamilton went on to head a team of 100 engineers working on software for the Apollo missions [1].