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Happy Birthday to Margaret Hamilton!
Née le 17/08/1936, la pionnière des logiciels et du programme Apollo Margaret Hamilton souffle aujourd'hui ses 87 bougies. Happy Birthday!
"What is software? Is it soft clothing?"
Des mots pour le dire
"Software development was far from an established profession. "Even the word was unknown", Hamilton recalls. "When Apollo first started, the person who was in charge asked his wife, "What is software? Is it soft clothing?" "
"On Apollo, we realised that what we were doing was different from just coding,’ says Hamilton. ‘As time went on, we learned more and more about putting together code for a whole system with many pieces: software to software, software to hardware, and software to human-ware — the astronauts."
"Even though software was driving the Apollo program, it still wasn’t considered a science – at least not by the hardware or mechanical engineers. Programmers were held to a lower regard. To combat this, Margaret coined the term "software engineering". Many of her co-workers considered it a joke at first. Of course, time has shown that she was absolutely right."
Computer, ordinateur, informatique - D'autres mots pour le dire
A retrouver dans le portrait de la pionnière du journalisme en informatique Marielle Stamm sur la page web "Mémoires vives" du Musée Bolo: Musée suisse de l’informatique, de la culture numérique et du jeu vidéo.
20/07/1969 - A man on the Moon. Alunissage réussi - Bravo Mme Hamilton!
"There was no second chance. We all knew that."
"The rendezvous radar wasn’t needed for landing, yet it since it was on, it was still interrupting the guidance computer many times each second. These interruptions would cause the computer to run out of resources, and display one of Margaret’s alarms. If the software hadn’t been written and tested so well, the load of from the extra radar data could have caused the LEM to abort the mission, or worse, crash into the moon — stranding or killing the astronauts onboard."
Margaret Hamilton, une pionnière en mots et en image.
🌜"Software Pioneer Margaret Hamilton on Apollo 11" (vidéo)
🌜"Margaret Hamilton Takes Software Engineering To The Moon And Beyond"
🌜"Margaret Hamilton: the woman who wrote the software that put man on the Moon"
Excellent week-end!
Anne-Sylvie
