A 17-year-old Pennsylvania student used code in a preprint to catalog 146 isolated noble polyhedra, then won a $250,000 prize for the result

Connor Hill won $250,000 for using computer algorithms to catalogue noble polyhedra, identifying 146 isolated shapes and two ...

Margaret Hamilton, the software pioneer whose tower of Apollo code became an iconic photo, dies at 90

Margaret Hamilton, the computer scientist whose software helped guide Apollo 11 to the Moon, died on 30 September 2026 at the age of 90. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Earlham ...
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Margaret Hamilton, pioneering MIT scientist who led a software team for NASA's Apollo program, dies at 90

Margaret Hamilton, a groundbreaking computer scientist who led the team that created the onboard flight software for NASA’s ...

Before Computer Science Became a Boys’ Club, Margaret Hamilton Wrote the Code

The woman who helped put astronauts on the moon was a software engineer when the field was not prestigious or lucrative.