Margaret Hamilton, leader of software team for NASA's Apollo program, dies: Margaret Hamilton, a groundbreaking computer scientist who led the team that created ...
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Key FactsApollo software pioneer Margaret Hamilton dies at 90
Oct 9, 2026 · Reading time: ~45 sec.
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- At MIT, she led the team that developed onboard software for crewed Apollo missions.
- She joined MIT’s Instrumentation Lab in the mid-1960s and became an assistant director there by 1968.
- In 2016, President Barack Obama awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States’ highest civilian honor.
- According to MIT News, she worked at the Instrumentation Lab into the 1970s, then founded two software companies.
To say Margaret Hamilton was a pioneer — to say she was ahead of her time — would be a dramatic understatement.— Olivier de Weck, the Apollo program professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and interim head of its aeronautics and astronautics department, told MIT News.
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In homage to Jurassic Park, researchers store DNA in amber-like polymer: Could be used to solve long term digital data storage problems too
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Key FactsDNA Storage in Amber-Like Polymer
Jun 17, 2024 · Reading time: ~30 sec.
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- MIT researchers develop an amber-like polymer for preserving and storing DNA long term.
- Inspired by Jurassic Park, the polymer allows storage of genomes or digital data.
- While efficient, the method of storage and retrieval is time-consuming.
- The innovative approach presents a viable alternative to traditional DNA storage and hints at the future of digital information preservation.