Margaret Hamilton, trailblazer whose software powered Apollo 11 moon landing, dies at 90
MIT computer scientist led development of software for moon mission and earned Presidential Medal of Freedom Margaret Hamilton, the computer pioneer whose software powered the first moon landing, has died, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announced on Wednesday. She was 90. In an era before titles such as software engineer and computer scientist became mainstream, Hamilton, who died on 30 September, learned to program under the tutelage of a renowned MIT meteorologist. Continue reading...
Congo central bank keeps policy rate at 12.5%
Democratic Republic of Congo's central bank decided at a meeting of its monetary policy committee to keep its policy rate unchanged at 12.5%, the bank said in a statement on Thursday.
For Ifé Franklin, art is a portal to the ancestors
The Roxbury artist’s work offers a way to cross between worlds, from life-size slave cabins to sacred “ring shouts” that connect the living to the dead. "The borders are real," Franklin said, "and they are to be unlearned if we are to march into the future."
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