Robert McNees

Lesser known: Before NASA and the Apollo program, Margaret Hamilton worked with mathematician and meteorologist Edward Lorenz.

From 1959-1961 she programmed weather simulations on his LGP-30 computer. Those projects were the precursors to his famous 1963 paper that marked the birth of chaos theory.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-hidden-heroines-of-chaos-20190520/
https://mastodon.social/@mcnees/110907153207130442

The Hidden Heroines of Chaos

Two women programmers played a pivotal role in the birth of chaos theory. Their previously untold story illustrates the changing status of computation in science.

Quanta Magazine
Aug 17, 2024 at 7:14pmIvory for Mac
Show threadWolfgang StiefAug 17, 2024
@mcnees @gminks Related: there is an LGP-30 replica based on FPGA: https://www.e-basteln.de/computing/lgp30/lgp30/
An FPGA-based LGP-30 Replica · e-basteln

A pocket-sized, FPGA-based replica of the LGP-30 computer

Show threadGminksAug 18, 2024
@stiefkind @mcnees that's pretty cool
Show threadMedea Vanamonde🏳️‍⚧️ ♀Aug 17, 2024
@mcnees she’s one of my favorite people
Show threadSevorisAug 18, 2024
@mcnees GDNDNDNRLN please tell me there‘s an autobiography or something like that somewhere? Hamilton‘s entire path just keeps being more and more awesome.
Show threadSerge DrozAug 18, 2024
@mcnees So we should call this the Lorenz-Hamilton-Fetter (LHF) Attractor?
Show threadhko 😷🪁Aug 18, 2024

@mcnees i did not know that, and it is amazing!

(Also: obviously enraging that it is not widely known)

Show threadThe BellmanAug 18, 2024

@mcnees @the_roamer

This is seriously cool. What a legend.