Wicked Witch’s Hat From 1939’s ‘Oz’ Hits Auction Block
#MovieNews #Movies #ArianaGrande #Auctions #CynthiaErivo #JudyGarland #MargaretHamilton #Memorabilia #Wicked #WickedForGood #Wizardofoz
Film legend Margaret Hamilton portrayed the mother of Morticia Addams, Hester Frump in the 1960s television series.
Found a three-hour oral history interview of #MargaretHamilton recorded by the Computer History Museum in 2017. Here's the part where she talks about the incident I mentioned from _Hackers_ chapter 5, and the MIT hackers in general. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bVRytYSTEk&t=42m29s The annotated transcript of the whole interview, unfortunately in PDF, is here: https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102738243/
Why I'm thinking about #MargaretHamilton today is a long story. But basically, I remembered how Steven Levy portrayed her in _Hackers_ (chapter 5, "The Midnight Computer Wiring Society"), knew she deserved better, and wanted to learn more.
I see from the Wikipedia article about #MargaretHamilton that she's still alive, now 89 years old. I wonder what she thinks about what the industry that still calls itself software engineering (her term) has become. I should do some more searching and find out if she has talked about it in recent years.
Margaret Hamilton - NASA Software Engineer, born this day in 1936. An American computer scientist, systems engineer, and business owner. She was director of the Software Engineering Division of the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, which developed on-board flight software for NASA's Apollo program. She later founded two software companies—Higher Order Software in 1976 and Hamilton Technologies in 1986, both in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
#MargaretHamilton #NASA
#OnThisDay in 1939, The Wizard of Oz, an American musical fantasy film adaptation of L. Frank Baum's book, premieres at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood; directed by Victor Fleming and King Vidor with a cast featuring Judy Garland (Dorothy), Ray Bolger (Scarecrow), Jack Haley (Tin Man), Bert Lahr (Cowardly Lion), Frank Morgan (Wizard), Billie Burke (Glinda), and #MargaretHamilton (Wicked Witch); songs by Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg.
In our regular Wednesday perusal of the classic "Patty Duke Show," we discovered that Margaret Hamilton played a recurring role as the family's housekeeper. #pattyduke #thepattydukeshow #tv #sitcom #classictv #margarethamilton #wickedwitch #wizardofoz #twins #twincousins
Modern #TechStack|s are convenient but they also make #developers lazy and result in the #enfattening of #Software and #Games.
Nowadays we have shitty #WebApps that eat up 100+MB just for a #WebView and which are instantly useless once they don't have a high-speed, low latency internet connection!
And don't even get me started on all the #WastefulComputing aka. "#AI" #bs and #Shitcoin - #Scams!
It seems short people are quite talented. 5 Ft. #JudyGarland #MargaretHamilton
To Republicans, #SallyRide or #ChristaMcAuliffe or #MaeJamison never existed. There would be no #NASA if it weren't for #MargaretHamilton.
I guess they're going to remove #KathrineJohnson from the name of the building that named after her too.
Goodbye #DorothyVaughan and #MaryJackson.
https://www.nasa.gov/women-at-nasa/ (How much longer will this page stay up?)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_NASA
#USpol #NASA #HiddenFigures #WomenOfNASA
RE: https://flipboard.com/users/404media/statuses/lJDMeIJPRKa9_RXCbBI33w:a:4082434389
Margaret Hamilton, who led the team developing the software for the Apollo 11 command module, evidently doesn't exist any more thanks to a directive requiring NASA to scrub DEI from public sites including "women in leadership".
It would be unfortunate if people circulated links like this one.
https://www.lindahall.org/about/news/scientist-of-the-day/margaret-hamilton/
@Skepticat
"Bring me that girl!"
There will never be a more terrifying witch than #MargaretHamilton . The casting for OZ was superb.
#TakingABreakFromFilming
#TheWizardOfOz (1939)
The Scarecrow, the Wicked Witch and The Tin Man reunited after 30 years (1969).
#RayBolger #MargaretHamilton #JackHaley
Currently at Miracle of Science. Love the vibe here. Several b&w photos of scientists and engineers adorn the space. (It's a couple of blocks from MIT.)
The iconic photo of Margaret Hamilton is behind the bar. A new edition is a LEGO recreation of said photo.
If you don't know who she is do yourself a favor and take a moment to read https://science.nasa.gov/people/margaret-hamilton/ and https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Hamilton_(software_engineer)
Still impressive.
Margaret Hamilton standing side the code she and her team wrote for the Apollo Guidance Computer (yes, the Apollo shuttle)
Polaroids taken by Andy Warhol of Margaret Hamilton in 1980.
Filming of The Wizard of Oz began October 13, 1938 - 86 years ago! Margaret Hamilton starred as the Wicked Witch of the West.
Margaret Hamilton - NASA Software Engineer, born this day in 1936. An American computer scientist, systems engineer, and business owner. She was director of the Software Engineering Division of the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, which developed on-board flight software for NASA's Apollo program. She later founded two software companies—Higher Order Software in 1976 and Hamilton Technologies in 1986, both in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
#MargaretHamilton #NASA
@gutenberg_org as a programmer, was interested in the "secret error handling souce" of USL (the Universal Systems Language, promoted by later companies of #margarethamilton )
I had notes stashed that now I published at http://robinp.github.io/posts/apollo-11-usl-universal-systems-language.html .
TLDR, from a contemporary view, the promises of USL overhyped, but it could have been pretty novel at the time. It didn't age well, but the avionics libraries shipped with it and expertise might make it useful in specific domains.
cc #Haskell people
Margaret #Hamilton full 3h video (Invidious):
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=6bVRytYSTEk
Full 3h video (Youtube, with jump marks):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bVRytYSTEk
kakistocracy
