margaret hamilton

What happened in July 1969?

• Margaret Hamilton was born.

• The first man landed on the moon.

• John Kennedy became president.

• Margaret Hamilton invented a new kind of software.

Why did the emergency alarm light up during the Apollo mission?

• The engine failed.

• Margaret's calculations were not correct.

• The computer was overloaded.

• The astronauts aborted the landing.

Put these words in the correct order:

in-flight

software

pioneering

TRUE or FALSE: Margaret was always very curious.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Where did Margaret see her first computer?

• When she was a child at school.

• When she was a student at MIT.

• When she was an engineer at NASA.

What is another word in English for data, or information?

What does 'unreliable' mean?

• You can't depend on it.

• You can't connect it.

• You can depend on it.

• You can connect it.

What expression did Margaret Hamilton invent to describe her job?

Her system was asynchronous, which means more important jobs interrupt _________ jobs.

• not important

• less important

• least important

• too important

How many bugs were in Margaret's software?

• 0

• 1

• 10

• 100