Margaret Hamilton
by John Steven Calder
Title
Margaret Hamilton
Artist
John Steven Calder
Medium
Mixed Media - Mixed Media On Wood Panel
Description
The painting is meant to be an homage to woman engineers and technicians that have been extremely critical for in the technical industries, but whose contributions have been greatly overlooked. In 1986, Margaret Hamilton received the Augusta Ada Lovelace Award by the Association for Women in Computing. This award is given to individuals for extraordinary service to the computing community through their accomplishments and contributions on behalf of women in computing. This painting ‘deconstructs” an object I claim to be perfect, the Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC).
This is the actual computer that was installed on the Apollo 11 Lunar Excursion Module (LEM), which landed man on the moon on July 20th 1969. This computer needed to work perfectly, once. No room for error, no do-overs, no second chances. The painting depicts a young engineer, Margret Hamilton, standing next to the source code listings, of her hand written software code. Due to her exacting and detailed work, this computer performed its task, perfectly, once! Embedded in this painting is some of the actual code she wrote, as well as circuit diagrams of the actual hardware this software ran on. I also included images of the AGC’s Magnetic Core Memory and the woman that built it.
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November 15th, 2018
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