Hamilton had possibly the most exciting and demanding job ever in computer science and engineering. It must have been so much fun. About as full stack as it gets.

Bletchley Park and the Manhattan project were great computing projects too, but Apollo is my favorite since they had such a tiny mass and power budget, real time constraints and the runtime consequences were so personal. Damn that was a great project.

Hopper was a giant of course. But Hamilton is less well known and I've been a fan since my youth.

'Apollo', Charles Murray and Catherine Cox [0] is a terrific book about the engineering and project management of the Apollo program. They don't talk about the software much (if anyone has a suggestion, I'd like to hear it), but there are a ton of great back stories about the technology, planning, and management of the program that led to July 20, 1969.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Apollo-Charles-Murray/dp/0976000806

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