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The wikipedia article on her notes she's credited (by NASA) with coining the term "software engineering". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Hamilton_%28sci

• _delirium 12y ago
  Interesting, and something I didn't know. The cited source unfortunately doesn't elaborate on the context. The chronology does seem about right. The first in-print use of the term I can find is from 1969, when it was used as the title for the proceedings of an October 1968 NATO scientific conference: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1102020 http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1102020. Given the NASA/NATO personnel overlap at the time, it's certainly plausible that they got it via NASA.
• shmerl 12y ago
  Good to know, thanks!