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Operators looking for the cause of a malfunction in Harvard University's Mark II Aiken Relay Calculator on September 9, 1945 discovered a moth trapped in its innards and Scotch-taped the unfortunate creature to the computer log over a caption reading, 'First actual case of bug being found.'
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Who is the driving force of COBOL and the one found the first bug?
The first COBOL specification was created by Grace Hopper, the woman who found a moth (bug) in a system.
Term used to denote an error in computer programme?
A bug.The story may be apocryphal, but supposedly an early programmer, possibly Grace Hopper or one of the people involved with the ENIAC, was trying to figure out why their primitive computer was not working correctly. They traced the problem to a board that held dozens of electromechanical relays. After inspecting it for a while, they found that an insect had crawled between two contact points as was preventing a circuit from completing. When asked what the problem was, the programmer replied that they "had found a bug".
Grace Murry Hopper Invented the compiler and was reported to find the first bug in a relay-what did she do with it?
Obama
What are the drawbacks of humanoid robots?
Giving a robot too much autonomy introduces the possibility of unexpected behaviors. In the computer world, that's called a "bug".
Who made the word debugging?
There is some controversy over the origin of the term "debugging." The terms "bug" and "debugging" are both popularly attributed to Admiral Grace Hopper in the 1940s[1]. While she was working on a Mark II Computer at Harvard University, her associates discovered a moth stuck in a relay and thereby impeding operation, whereupon she remarked that they were "debugging" the system. However the term "bug" in the meaning of technical error dates back at least to 1878 and Thomas Edison (see the Software bug article for a full discussion), and "debugging" seems to have been used as a term in aeronautics before entering the world of computers. Indeed, in an interview Grace Hopper remarked that she was not coining the term. The moth fit the already existing terminology, so she saved it. The Oxford English Dictionary entry for "debug" quotes the term "debugging" used in reference to airplane engine testing in a 1945 article in the Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society, Hopper's bug was found 9 September 1947. The term was not adopted by computer programmers until the early 1950s. The seminal article by Gill [2] in 1951 is the earliest in-depth discussion of programming errors, but it does not use the term "bug" or "debugging". In the ACM's digital library, the term "debugging" is first used in three papers from 1952 ACM National Meetings.[3][4][5] Two of the three use the term in quotation marks. By 1963, "debugging" was a common enough term to be mentioned in passing without explanation on page 1 of the CTSS manual.[6] Kidwell's article Stalking the Elusive Computer Bug[7] discusses the etymology of "bug" and "debug" in greater detail
What term was supposedly coined after a moth found its way into a computer called Mk1 at the Harvard University in 1945 and caused its malfunction?
bug - a computer bug
What is first computer bug?
The word "bug" in computer terminology refers to an unexpected glitch that a program may execute by accident. The first computer bug was an actual bug! I forget how the story goes, but one day someone was opening up their computer to fix it because something was wrong with it, and they found a dead moth inside!
When was the first computer programmer made?
1945, Charles Babbage inventor of first computer.
New technology from 1945-1953?
In 1945, the patent for the first computer was awarded...
What year was the first Volkswagen bug made?
1945 the first Volswagon Bug or "beetle" was made, the Beetle is the longest-running and most-manufactured automobile of a single design platform anywhere in the world
When was the first computer language introduced?
between 1940 and 1945
Was the first computer bug a real insect?
The first recorded computer bug was indeed an insect, a moth smashed in the contacts of a relay of the Harvard Mark II electromechanical computer. It caused a hardware malfunction not a software problem though. There were certainly many hardware & software problems before it though!!
What is a computer bug?
any problem in the computer's hardware or software..
Who first used the term bug in computer programming and where did this occur?
moth in computer in 1952The term "bug" had been in use for any malfunction or error of a machine long before electronic digital computers existed.Its first use referring to a computer problem was on the Harvard Mark II electromechanical computer in 1947, when a moth got smashed inside the contacts of a relay causing a failure. When the failure was located and the moth removed from the relay, the operator on that shift taped it to the logbook below the entry on the failure and labeled it First Computer Bug. That morning Grace Murray Hopper came on duty and read the logbook and thought it was a great story to tell every time she spoke somewhere. The first computer bug wasn't even in an electronic computer, the Harvard Mark II was electromechanical.
When the first computer completed?
The ABC was completed in fall of 1941. ENIAC was completed in late 1945.
When was the VW Beetle first introduced?
The Volkswagen Beetle, also known as the 'Volkswagen bug', was first produced in 1938. However, the Beetle did not become widely commercially produced until 1945.
What type of bug stopped the first electronic computer?
More than likely a syntactical error caused by transposing input.
