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Margaret Hamilton, the actress whose role as the cackling Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz unnerved generations of children, died yesterday, apparently of a heart attack, at a nursing home in Salisbury, Connecticut. She was 82 years old.
Margaret Elaine Hamilton (née Heafield; born August 17, 1936) is an American computer scientist. She was director of the Software Engineering Division of the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, which developed on-board flight software for NASA's Apollo program.
Actress: The Wizard of Oz. Margaret Hamilton was born December 9, 1902 in Cleveland, Ohio, to Jennie (Adams) and Walter Hamilton. She later attended Hathaway Brown School in Shaker Heights, Ohio, and practiced acting doing children's theater while a Junior League of Cleveland member.
Margaret Hamilton (born August 17, 1936, Paoli, Indiana, U.S.) is an American computer scientist who was one of the first computer software programmers; she created the term software engineer to describe her work.
Then everybody jumped on it, but Margaret, firmly, in a couple of interviews, said they were not a bunch of drunkards. Margaret Hamilton and a winged monkey look into a crystal ball in a still from the film, ‘The Wizard of Oz,’ directed by Victor Fleming, 1939. MGM Studios/Courtesy of Getty Images.
One of the many contributors to this effort was Margaret Hamilton, a computer scientist who led the Software Engineering Division of the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, which in 1961 contracted with NASA to develop the Apollo program’s guidance system.
Margaret Hamilton Led the NASA Software Team That Landed Astronauts on the Moon. Apollo’s successful computing software was optimized to deal with unknown problems and to interrupt one task to...