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The woman who helped develop software for the Apollo 11 was awarded a Medal of Freedom today.

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  • 14
    Bill Gates in the bg?
  • 24
    @Hevlastka na Steve Jobs
  • 3
    @Hevlastka I think is Linus Torvalds. Rotfl. Bill and Melinda got the medal too. And Grace Hopper.
  • 3
    video editing software? just kiddin
  • 12
    I do love a girl with big books.

    Seriously though, those things are gigantic 👀😓💦
  • 5
    Well worth reading up on her. Pioneer in the world of software engineering.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
  • 0
    @uddinstock that's a ton of code, fam. I remember reading that they used to keep them in binders. I wonder how big my companies codebase would be if I stacked it up like that
  • 4
    Helped? She did it
  • 2
    What is this "freedom" they are awarding Bill Gates with a medal in its honor?
  • 1
    Your move, Donald
  • 0
    @uddinstock I think it's the test protocols. They were some of the first to do massively automated tests so that things like that hitomi bug would not happen
  • 1
    Every time I'm reminded of her achievements I feel like I couldn't express enough respect for her. Plus the jealousy I have that she got to work with NASA on Apollo 11 it's all just amazing.
  • 0
    She was a total qt3.14
  • 1
    "A medal of freedom". First thing I think of is she was told the NSA will stop spying on her
  • 0
    Kinda took them a while..
  • 3
    She literally is the mother of software engineering , this was pre-software , pre-Os era when she wrote a piece of code that included priority scheduling (sort of) this helped astronaut to land on moon properly cause out of two important process that was running on AGC ( the landing process and Rf process) the landing process was preferred and was given more cpu time
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    @thmnmlst
    Margaret Heafield Hamilton
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