In 1969, she helped Apollo 11 carrying Neil Armstrong land on the moon. Indiana woman wrote the code that made it happen. She was MIT's first female programmer

Margaret Hamilton, a computer scientist from Indiana, played a crucial role in NASAs Apollo programme by leading the team ...

Over 100 years before the first computer, Ada Lovelace wrote the first program in 1842

And while the computer as we know it today evolved years later, the groundwork for it all began in the 19th century with one ...
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Background: The first Lady Ada, the first computer programmer

From 1832, when she was 17, Ada’s remarkable mathematical abilities began to emerge, and her interest in mathematics dominated her life even after her marriage in 1835 to William King, 8th Baron King, ...