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An unnamed technician working the night shift on the Harvard Mark II electromechanical computer. The machine had failed while working a problem sometime earlier and he had been troubleshooting it. He tracked the problem to a relay whose contacts would not close properly. When the relay was removed and replaced, a moth was found smashed to death in the old relay's contacts. When he made the entry in the logbook for that problem he referred to the moth as "the first computer bug" and taped the moth into the book to prove it.
When Grace Murray Hopper came in on the day shift she read the log entry and thought it would be a great story to tell.
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Who discovered and coined the term 'I think we have a bug?
The term "bug" in the context of computer programming is believed to have originated from an incident in 1947 when a moth became trapped in a relay of the Harvard Mark II computer, causing a malfunction. Grace Hopper, a computer scientist, is often credited with the discovery and popularization of this term in the programming context.
Who Invented the term Folder?
Referring to computer terms, it was Xerox that coined the term folder.
Who coined the terms bit and byte?
Werner Buchholz coined the term bit/byte in 1956 for IBM stream computer.
What term was coined in 1983 to market the Gavilan SC portable computer?
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What is meant by the term callback in computer programming?
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Who coined the term Social Knowledge?
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Who coined term bacteria?
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Who Coined the Term Infantilism?
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Why is an error in a computer program called a bug?
The term "bug" to refer to errors in a computer program originated in the early days of computing. In one instance, a moth caused a malfunction in a Harvard Mark II computer in 1947, and engineers found and removed the moth, starting the use of the term "bug" for programming errors.
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Who coined the term sensex?
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