Thursday, January 29, 2009

Adm. Grace Hopper

On NRO yesterday Jay Nordlinger mentioned that in past years at Davos, he had run into Admiral Grace Hopper. Admiral Hopper was the first female Admiral. I met her quite a few years ago at some event.

Grace Hopper was the person who first called a computer glitch a "bug." Story was that at one of the original room sized computers at the Pentagon the staff had a porblem. Crawling around back in the machine, they discovered a moth had gotten into machine.

From then on, any problem was a "bug."

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