Margaret Hamilton, who led Apollo software team, dies at 90

Margaret Hamilton, who led an MIT software team for NASA's Apollo program and helped establish software engineering as a discipline, died on September 30 at 90. She spent over two decades at MIT, forging new paths in computer science and engineering.

• Hamilton led the MIT team that wrote Apollo software
• She died on September 30 at age 90
• Spent over two decades at MIT in computer science
• Credited with founding software engineering as a discipline