计算机科学家玛格丽特·汉密尔顿逝世，终年90岁

计算机科学家玛格丽特·汉密尔顿于2024年9月30日逝世，享年90岁1。汉密尔顿在1959年至1970年代中期在麻省理工学院工作，管理该校的软件工程部门1。她因在NASA阿波罗11号任务中的关键贡献而被誉为软件工程领域的开创者，是第一位加入NASA项目的程序员，也是首位被该机构聘用的女性1。

在1969年阿波罗11号登月前的关键时刻，着陆器计算机发出警报显示系统过载1。汉密尔顿的团队通过开发优先级驱动算法解决了这一问题，确保了月球登陆任务的成功1。她的卓越贡献得到国家认可，2016年被巴拉克·奥巴马授予总统自由勋章1。

Margaret Hamilton, the pioneering computer scientist whose software engineering work proved crucial to the Apollo 11 moon landing, has died at age 901. She passed away on September 30, 20241.

Hamilton led a team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that developed the software for NASA's Apollo 11 mission1. During the critical moments before the lunar landing in 1969, the spacecraft's computer issued an alarm indicating it was overloaded; Hamilton's team resolved the crisis through priority-driven algorithms embedded in the software, ensuring the mission's success1. Her groundbreaking contributions to software engineering and space exploration earned her recognition as a pioneer in the field1. In 2016, President Barack Obama awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom1.

Hamilton worked at MIT from 1959 through the mid-1970s, where she managed the software engineering division1. She was the first programmer to join a NASA project and the first woman hired for the role1.