Fun Fact About Women in Technology

As we learned in class, Grace Murray Hopper was one of the first female computer programmers. Everyone has also heard the phrase "I have found a bug in your program," or "There is a bug in the system." The word bug was coined by Grace while investigating a large computer. She noticed that something was not working correctly, so she took a look inside the computer and after carefully analyzing the hardware, she noticed a moth was stuck inside one of the compilers, basically a switch that is On or Off, that was causing it to not work. After removing it from the system, the compiler worked again.