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

Bill Gates in the bg?

@Hevlastka na Steve Jobs

@Hevlastka I think is Linus Torvalds. Rotfl. Bill and Melinda got the medal too. And Grace Hopper.

video editing software? just kiddin

I do love a girl with big books.

Seriously though, those things are gigantic 👀😓💦

Well worth reading up on her. Pioneer in the world of software engineering.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

@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

Helped? She did it

What is this "freedom" they are awarding Bill Gates with a medal in its honor?

Your move, Donald

@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

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.

She was a total qt3.14

"A medal of freedom". First thing I think of is she was told the NSA will stop spying on her

Kinda took them a while..

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

@thmnmlst
Margaret Heafield Hamilton

For those interested
https://github.com/chrislgarry/...