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Margaret Hamilton at work in Charles Stark Draper Laboratory Staff during the Apollo missions. A few years after graduating from Earlham College with a BA in Mathematics, Margaret Hamilton soon found ...

Forget Larry and Sergey: At the Googleplex in Mountain View, California, the real celebrity engineer is Jeff Dean. Consider this story Googler Heej Jones told on Quora: "Before my first day at Google, ...