Margaret Hamilton is an American computer scientist, systems engineer, and

business owner. She was Director of the Software Engineering Division of the
MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, which developed on-board flight software for
the Apollo space program.

Hamilton then joined the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory at MIT, which at the
time was working on the Apollo space mission. She eventually led a team
credited with developing the software for Apollo and Skylab. Hamilton's team
was responsible for developing in-flight software Another part of her team
designed and developed the systems software which included the error
detection and recovery software such as restarts and the Display Interface
Routines (AKA the Priority Displays) which Hamilton designed and developed.
She worked to gain hands-on experience during a time when computer science
courses were uncommon and software engineering courses did not exist.