Margaret Hamilton, Who Coined 'Software Engineering,' Dies at 90

Margaret Hamilton, who coined the term software engineering and led the development of onboard flight software for NASA's Apollo program in the 1960s, has died at 90, Ars Technica reports. She was born in 1936 in Paoli, Indiana, and graduated from Earlham College in 1958 with a degree in mathematics and a minor in philosophy. The job title she invented stuck because it made a claim on rigor: code built for a spacecraft was not scribbling, and the phrase insisted it be held to the standard of a discipline.