Margaret Hamilton (Paperback)

Lingua: inglese

Editore: Steven Patterson, 2026

9798235125087

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Paperback. Long before smartphones ruled our pockets or code managed our global infrastructure, a quiet revolution was forged inside the fluorescent-lit laboratories of mit. The code that touched the moon is the riveting biography of margaret hamilton, a pioneering mathematician and systems thinker who walked into the male-dominated world of mid-century aerospace and fundamentally invented a new discipline: software engineering.Facing brutal hardware constraints-just four kilobytes of ram and a relentless cold war deadline set by president john f. Kennedy-hamilton pioneered the concepts of asynchronous executive processing and priority scheduling. Her uncompromising demand for fault-tolerant, bulletproof code faced deep skepticism from traditional engineers until july 20, 1969. When a rogue radar signal flooded the apollo guidance computer with an avalanche of data during the historic apollo 11 lunar descent, flashing terrifying 1201 and 1202 alarms, it was hamilton's brilliant architecture that prevented a catastrophic crash. The computer shed non-essential tasks, protected its core navigation loops, and safely guided neil armstrong and buzz aldrin onto the powdery dust of the sea of tranquility.Tracing her path from a curious childhood in small-town indiana to receiving the presidential medal of freedom, this book is an inspiring tribute to an unsung visionary. It reveals how one brilliant mind mastered primitive machines, shattered institutional barriers, and wrote the code that forever changed the trajectory of human history. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

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Titolo
Margaret Hamilton (Paperback)
Autore
Steven Patterson
Editore
Steven Patterson
Anno di pubblicazione
2026
Condizione
new
Rilegatura
Paperback
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 13
9798235125087

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