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History of Feminism

Tuesday Afternoon

(56,912 posts) Tue Jun 24, 2014, 11:05 AM Jun 2014

#DidYouKnow the term “debugging” [View all]

as it refers to computer glitches—is attributed to Rear Admiral Dr. Grace Hopper? Hopper was a pioneering computer scientist whose work led to the development of COBOL, one of the earliest programming languages. #WomenInSTEM (Photo: Grace Hopper at the UNIVAC keyboard, 1960. Smithsonian.)

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#DidYouKnow the term “debugging” [View all] Tuesday Afternoon Jun 2014 OP

yes! the story was that one bug was caused by an actual cockroach crawing in among the vacuum tubes! unblock Jun 2014 #1

Admiral Nano-Second 4Q2u2 Jun 2014 #2

I have some of her 'nanoseconds'. SeattleVet Jun 2014 #4

Wonderful. n/t progressoid Jun 2014 #6

That's is too cool ismnotwasm Jun 2014 #7

That's exactly the way I heard it. Thanks for the personal note and posting the video. freshwest Jun 2014 #8

Hopper was legendary and very much alive Warren Stupidity Jun 2014 #3

She also had a great sense of humor, and was a wonderful speaker. SeattleVet Jun 2014 #5

Yup they teach this in many tech classes IronLionZion Jun 2014 #9