Mathematician Grace Hopper, who earned a PhD at Yale and later became a US Navy rear admiral, pioneered compilers and helped ...

From a moth lodged in a computer's relay component in 1947 to costly failures in space and healthcare — a retrospective on ...

Our son, Eric, is a university computer network administrator. Eric said this kind of issue suggests a hardware problem - a "bug" - and advised removing and reinserting all the connectors and ...

By “bug” I mean hardware problems, program errors or even real bugs. A common hardware bug is when electrical contacts in a computer become oxidized or work themselves loose.

Apparently we call them bugs because Grace Hopper found the first computer “bug”: a moth stuck between the relays on the Harvard Mark II on September 9, 1945.

Saying that, the term "bug" started to become popular in the post-war years to describe a computer malfunction after an incident in 1947.

The words "bug" and "debug" soon became a standard part of the language of computer programmers. Among those working on the Mark II in 1947 was mathematician and computer programmer Grace Hopper, who ...

NASA scientists are developing a software ‘checker program’ to find ‘bugs’ in spacecraft computer code more quickly and accurately to improve space mission safety. Ever since a moth ...

So why is it called the Heartbleed Bug? Before an SSL connection is established, the sending computer sends a signal, called the heartbeat, to the other computer to make sure it’s online.

Microsoft Corp. took the unusual step of warning that a computer bug it has now patched could be used by a cyber weapon similar to the WannaCry worm, which spread across the globe two years ago.