This is an example of someone that earned recognition at the highest level.
Can you imagine writing 150,000 lines of assembler code that has to be flawless, multitasking and handle situations like "the comptuer is overloaded". If screw up, the Apollo 11 crashes into the moon. Margaret coined the term "Software Engineering"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Hamilton_(software_engineer)


Whom would you give a Presidental Medal of Freedom to?