From bugs to cloud to to mice to spam, here's where we get 11 common computer terms. The term "bug," meaning a flaw in a piece of software, gained popularity after a moth flew into the insides of ...

Ever wondered where the term ‘bug’ came from? Well, on September 9, 1945, U.S. Navy officer Grace Hopper found a moth between the relays on the Harvard Mark II computer she was working on. In ...

My wife Minnie's computer refused to start after we returned from a trip to see the... Mims: The term computer 'bug' can be literal MySA Logo Hearst Newspapers Logo ...

It’s an oft-repeated tale that the grand dame of military computing, computer scientist and U.S. Navy Rear Admiral Grace Hopper, coined the terms bug and debug after an incident involving ...

The term “bug” had been used by engineers to describe flaws in machines as far back as Thomas Edison, but Hopper popularized “bug” and “debug” as early computer-programmer language. She was an ...