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  • margaret hamilton — (person)   (born 1936-08-17) A computer scientist, systems engineer and business owner, credited with coining the term software engineering. Margaret Hamilton published over 130 papers, proceedings and reports about the 60 projects and six major programs in which she has been involved. In 1965 she became Director of Software Programming at MIT's Charles Stark Draper Laboratory and Director of the Software Engineering Division of the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, which developed on-board flight software for the Apollo space program. At NASA, Hamilton pioneered the Apollo on-board guidance software that navigated to and landed on the Moon and formed the basis for software used in later missions. At the time, programming was a hands-on, engineering descipline; computer science and software engineering barely existed. Hamilton produced innovations in system design and software development, enterprise and process modelling, development paradigms, formal systems modelling languages, system-oriented objects for systems modelling and development, automated life-cycle environments, software reliability, software reuse, domain analysis, correctness by built-in language properties, open architecture techniques for robust systems, full life-cycle automation, quality assurance, seamless integration, error detection and recovery, man-machine interface systems, operating systems, end-to-end testing and life-cycle management. She developed concepts of asynchronous software, priority scheduling and Human-in-the-loop decision capability, which became the foundation for modern, ultra-reliable software design. The Apollo 11 moon landing would have aborted when spurious data threatened to overload the computer, but thanks to the innovative asynchronous, priority based scheduling, it eliminated the unnecessary processing and completed the landing successfully. In 1986, she founded Hamilton Technologies, Inc., developed around the Universal Systems Language and her systems and software design paradigm of Development Before the Fact (DBTF).
  • methylidyne group — the trivalent group ≡CH.
  • micropaleontology — the branch of paleontology dealing with the study of microscopic fossils.
  • mileage indicator — a device on a vehicle such as a car, plane, etc which indicates the number of miles travelled
  • military governor — the military officer in command of a military government.
  • misorganization's — the act or process of organizing.
  • montagu's harrier — a brownish European bird of prey, Circus pygargus, with long narrow wings and a long tail: family Accipitridae (hawks, harriers, etc)
  • mother of vinegar — mother2 .
  • motorcycle engine — the engine of a motorcycle
  • motorcycle racing — sport: competing on motorcycles
  • motoring magazine — a magazine about cars
  • multigenerational — of or relating to several generations, as of a family, or society: a multigenerational novel covering 300 years.
  • multiple cropping — the use of the same field for two or more crops, whether of the same or of different kinds, successively during a single year.
  • national heritage — country's cultural legacy
  • natural logarithm — a logarithm having e as a base. Symbol: ln.
  • negative polarity — the grammatical character of a word or phrase, such as ever or any, that may normally be used only in a semantically or syntactically negative or interrogative context
  • network marketing — a marketing strategy in which sales representatives of a company recruit other salespeople and earn commissions on their own sales and on the sales made by their team: Use your personal relationships to be successful in network marketing.
  • neurodegenerative — Resulting in or characterized by degeneration of the nervous system, especially the neurons in the brain.
  • neuropathological — (medicine) Of, pertaining to, or arising from neuropathology, the pathology of nerve tissue.
  • neurophysiologist — the branch of physiology dealing with the functions of the nervous system.
  • neuropsychologist — A neurologist or psychologist whose speciality is neuropsychology.
  • nitrogen fixation — any process of combining atmospheric nitrogen with other elements, either by chemical means or by bacterial action: used chiefly in the preparation of fertilizers, industrial products, etc.
  • nitrogen narcosis — a semistupor, lightheadedness, or euphoria experienced by deep-sea divers when nitrogen from air enters the blood at higher than atmospheric pressure.
  • nitrogen peroxide — the equilibrium mixture of nitrogen dioxide and dinitrogen tetroxide
  • non-argumentative — fond of or given to argument and dispute; disputatious; contentious: The law students were an unusually argumentative group.
  • non-incriminating — to accuse of or present proof of a crime or fault: He incriminated both men to the grand jury.
  • non-profit-making — A non-profit-making organization or charity is not run with the intention of making a profit.
  • non-reciprocating — to give, feel, etc., in return.
  • nondiscriminating — differentiating; analytical.
  • north frigid zone — the part of the earth's surface between the Arctic Circle and the North Pole.
  • northern kingfish — a croaker, Menticirrhus saxatilis, inhabiting Atlantic coastal waters of the U.S.
  • northern michigan — the peninsula between lakes Superior and Michigan constituting the N part of Michigan. Abbreviation: U.P.
  • norwegian current — an ocean current formed from the terminus of the North Atlantic Current, flowing N along the Norwegian coast into the Barents Sea.
  • not lift a finger — any of the terminal members of the hand, especially one other than the thumb.
  • nothing more than — merely, solely
  • number eight iron — a club with an iron head the face of which has more slope than a pitcher but less slope than a niblick.
  • on speaking terms — the act, utterance, or discourse of a person who speaks.
  • on the right foot — in an auspicious manner
  • on-street parking — parking (of a car, vehicle, etc) that is or is allowed to be done on a street
  • once over lightly — a hasty or superficial treatment, look, examination, etc.; once-over: The maid gave the room the once-over-lightly.
  • once-over-lightly — a hasty or superficial treatment, look, examination, etc.; once-over: The maid gave the room the once-over-lightly.
  • opening arguments — the statements or arguments provided by lawyers at the beginning of a trial
  • operating theatre — An operating theatre is a special room in a hospital where surgeons carry out medical operations.
  • organ-pipe cactus — a treelike or columnar cactus, Lemaireocereus marginatus, of Mexico, having a central, erect spine surrounded by spreading spines in clusters of five to eight, and funnel-shaped, brownish-purple flowers.
  • organic chemistry — the branch of chemistry, originally limited to substances found only in living organisms, dealing with the compounds of carbon.
  • organized ferment — ferment (def 1).
  • organized militia — a former military organization functioning under both state and federal authority.
  • orthogonal matrix — a matrix that is the inverse of its transpose so that any two rows or any two columns are orthogonal vectors
  • orthogonalization — (mathematics) The process of converting a set of functions or vectors into orthogonal ones.
  • osculating circle — circle of curvature.
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