The First Computer Bug

I've been posting too much on medicine and medical ethics...zzzzzzzz


So here is the FIRST COMPUTER BUG...and a photo of the Navy officer who coined the phrase...

"...Have you ever wondered where the term "computer bug" comes from? The Mark II Aiken Relay Calculator stopped working in September 1945. Lieutenant Junior Grade Hopper (who was always good with gadgets) was one of those who took it apart piece by piece until a moth was found stuck between the contacts of relay number 70. The log entry says "First actual case of bug being found," and the word went out that the machine had been "debugged."

"...Perhaps [Grace Hopper's] best-known contribution to computing was the invention of the compiler, the intermediate program that translates English language instructions into the language of the target computer.

"Amazing Grace even has a US Naval vessel named in her honor. The USS Hopper (DDG-70) .."

.....Grace Hopper's Story is at the link...