Tiffany Li
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Sep 30, 2023 at 4:37amIceCubesApp
Show threadTiffany LiSep 30, 2023

^This is a photo of Margaret Hamilton, a computer scientist and software engineer who led the team that developed the code for the Apollo space program! Her work helped humanity’s first steps on the Moon.

You can read more about her and that famous photo here: https://science.nasa.gov/people/margaret-hamilton/

Margaret Hamilton

Computer Scientist - MIT

NASA Science
Show threadseungjinSep 30, 2023
@tiffanycli In the old days, real programmers used to take pictures with/of their code books. These days, programmers take pictures of/with their fancy, shiny Appl€ laptops.
Show threadweirdisgoodSep 30, 2023
@tiffanycli cute and inspirational
Show threadJohnMasheySep 30, 2023
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And a Fellow of our Computer History Museum:
https://computerhistory.org/blog/2017-chm-fellow-margaret-hamilton/
2017 CHM Fellow Margaret Hamilton - CHM

Remarkable People

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Show threadPaulaSep 30, 2023
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Show threadPaulaSep 30, 2023
^ This is a photo of Judith Love Cohen. She was an American aerospace engineer who helped to create the abort guidance system which was used during the Apollo 13 mission to bring the astronauts safely back home. She went to work the day her son was born. She took a printout of the problem she was working on to the hospital. She called her boss to let him know that she had solved the problem. The same day, she gave birth to Jack Black.
Show threadPaulaSep 30, 2023

Another of Judith’s sons is the IBM Professor of Engineering Management at USC, and an Adjunct Professor of Engineering at UCLA. After retirement she went on to found a publishing company where she wrote and produced books to inspire young women into amazing careers. You can read more about her here:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Love_Cohen

Judith Love Cohen - Wikipedia

Show threadJulian GonggrijpSep 30, 2023
@tiffanycli @quoll If you plan to post more of these, please consider applying the #girlmath tag. I'll follow it.
Show threadPaulaOct 1, 2023
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Show threadPaulaOct 1, 2023
^ The moment Dr Katie Bouman first saw the image of the supermassive black hole her algorithm was constructing from 8 separate telescopes under the Event Horizon Telescope project. Dr Bouman led the team that developed the algorithm named CHIRP: Continuous High-resolution Image Reconstruction using Patch priors. Dr Bouman was a postgraduate student at MIT at the time.