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Margaret Hamilton Futurist Portrait
Margaret Hamilton
Space Navigator
This portrait was made by artist Nettrice Gaskins using Deep Dream, a computer vision program that uses artificial intelligence to generate new and complex images.
Description: A portrait of Margaret Hamilton. The portrait is digitally created based on a photograph. She smiles softly at the viewer. She has long hair. She wears clear, big glasses. She is middle aged.The portrait is multicolored, but includes mostly blue and red tones. Data code of ones and zeros appear at the bottom of the image. The back of the banner is a repeating pattern of a series of blue ones and zeros.
"When I first got into it, nobody knew what it was that we were doing. It was like the Wild West."
-- Margaret Hamilton
Every journey needs a plan -- especially a trip to the Moon. When astronauts embarked on their lunar mission in 1969, they used navigation software developed by Margaret Hamilton and her team to guide them. Hamilton (born 1936) was one of few women working in computer programming at the time, and helped popularize the phrase "software engineering." Today this is an enormous industry, one of the most significant in shaping our future. Both in her work on the space program and as an entrepreneur -- she went on to found two software companies -- Hamilton helped pave the way. |