It is not known whether any one person is attributed to first use the term. The following extracts from Wikipedia may illustrate more:
"The term "bug" was used in an account by computer pioneer Grace Hopper, who publicized the cause of a malfunction in an early electromechanical computer.[6] A typical version of the story is given by this quote:[7]
In 1946, when Hopper was released from active duty, she joined the Harvard Faculty at the Computation Laboratory where she continued her work on the Mark II and Mark III. Operators traced an error in the Mark II to a moth trapped in a relay, coining the term bug. This bug was carefully removed and taped to the log book. Stemming from the first bug, today we call errors or glitch's [sic] in a program a bug.
Hopper was not actually the one who found the insect, as she readily acknowledged. The date in the log book was 9 September 1947,[8][9] although sometimes erroneously reported as 1945.[10] The operators who did find it, including William "Bill" Burke, later of the Naval Weapons Laboratory, Dahlgren, Virginia,[11] were familiar with the engineering term and, amused, kept the insect with the notation "First actual case of bug being found." Hopper loved to recount the story.[12] This log book is on display in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, complete with moth attached.[9]
While it is certain that the Harvard Mark II operators did not coin the term "bug", it has been suggested that they did coin the related term, "debug". Even this is unlikely, since the Oxford English Dictionaryentry for "debug" contains a use of "debugging" in the context of air-plane engines in 1945. See:debugging."
The term "debugging" is credited to Grace Hopper, a computer scientist and Navy rear admiral. In 1947, she removed a moth from a computer relay and jokingly referred to the act as "debugging" the system, thus giving rise to the term in the context of fixing technical issues.
"Coined" typically refers to the act of creating or inventing a new word or phrase. It can also mean the process of officially issuing a new currency.
The phrase "word to your mother" was popularized by the rapper Vanilla Ice in his 1990 song "Ice Ice Baby." The phrase is used as a slang expression to affirm or emphasize a statement.
Frederick Douglass is often credited with coining the phrase "It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men." This statement underscores the importance of investing in and nurturing children in their formative years to prevent challenges in adulthood.
The phrase "Time is of the essence" was coined in legal contracts to emphasize the importance of meeting deadlines and obligations within the specified time frame. It is widely used in business and legal contexts to signify that punctuality and timeliness are crucial to the agreement.
Abraham Lincoln is often credited with popularizing the phrase "government of the people, by the people, for the people" in his Gettysburg Address in 1863, though the exact origins of the phrase are not definitively known.
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A coined expression is a phrase that is very popular or one that is used often. A coined expression can also be a new phrase or an existing phrase or word that is used in a new sense.
Nam June Paik coined the phrase "Information Highway" in 1974. :)
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Frederick Douglass is often credited with coining the phrase "It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men." This statement underscores the importance of investing in and nurturing children in their formative years to prevent challenges in adulthood.
There is a google article about her 107th birthday (Dec. 9, 2013) where it describes the "bug" that she found while they were testing the computer (Mark I Electromechanical Computing Machine). The anecdotal story is that the moth they found was a bug and that they debugged the machine.
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