Apollo 11 software prevents accidents
Personajes:
Tema: Software
Competencias
Competencia Matemática, en ciencia, tecnología e ingeniería
Competencia Digital
Competencia Personal, social y de aprender a aprender
Materias y cursos por Sistema Educativo
España > Tecnología y Digitalización > 1º ESO > Digitalización del entorno personal de aprendizaje
España > Tecnología y Digitalización > 2º ESO > Digitalización del entorno personal de aprendizaje
España > Tecnología y Digitalización > 3º ESO > Digitalización del entorno personal de aprendizaje
Enunciado
Margaret Hamilton (born 1936) is a computer scientist, mathematician and software engineer who was responsible for the development of flight software on board Apollo mission computers. Her approach to software design was pioneering for the time, her priority being the safety and survival of astronauts during trips to the Moon.
Research what features the software developed for the Apollo 11 had.
Seek information about the two accidents that Margaret Hamilton prevented because of the tools she implanted in her Apollo 11 Mission Software.
Observaciones y contexto
Margaret Hamilton can be related to the following contemporary inventors:
- Hedy Lamarr, inventor of the precursor technology of wifi and GPS
- Betty Snyder Holberton, one of the six original ENIAC programmers, the first general purpose digital computer (she is also internationally recognized for her contributions to the COBOL language)
- Jean Jennings Bartik
- Kathleen McNulty Mauchly Antonelli
- Marlyn Wescoff Meltzer
- Ruth Lichterman Teitelbaum
- Frances Bilas Spence, one of the original programmers of the Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer (ENIAC) computer
- Joan Elisabeth Lowther Murray, British cryptanalyst and numismatic who worked at Bletchley Park during World War II
- Grace Murray Hopper, American computer scientist and military with a degree of counteralmiral
- Jean E. Sammet, American computer scientist, who developed the FORMAC programming language in 1962
- Karen Spärck Jones, British scientist specializing in computational linguistics and a pioneer researcher in information retrieval
- Mary Kenneth Keller, who was a Catholic religious, American computer pioneer and the first female PhD in computer science in the United States
- Evelyn Berezin, an American computer engineer who developed the first airline ticket booking system for United Airlines
- Frances Elizabeth "Fran" Allen, American computer scientist and pioneer in the field of optimizing compilers
- Radia Joy Perlman is a software creator and network engineer, security expert, best known as the Mother of the Internet.
Descripción
Exercise of analysis and practical application.
Objectives:
- Example of software application to large projects: Apollo 11
- Practical examples of error code messages and how the software can fix them.