Who invented the term “bug” (indicating a computer malfunction)?
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In 1945, Grace Murray Hopper was working on the Harvard University Mark II Aiken Relay Calculator (a primitive computer).\n\nOn the 9th of September, 1945, when the machine was experiencing problems, an investigation showed that there was a moth trapped between the points of Relay #70, in Panel F.\n\nThe operators removed the moth and affixed it to the log. (See the picture above.) The entry reads: "First actual case of bug being found."\n\n(See the link at the bottom of this page for a picture.)\n\nThe word went out that they had "debugged" the machine and the term "debugging a computer program" was born.\n========================\n\nHOWEVER . . .\n\nWell, the entry ("First actual case of bug being found.") shows that the term was already in use before the moth was discovered. Grace Hopper also reported that the term "bug" was used to describe problems in radar electronics during WWII.\n\nThe term was use during Thomas Edison's life to mean an industrial defect. And in Hawkin's New Catechism of Electricity, an 1896 electrical handbook from Theo. Audel & Co.) included the entry:\n\nThe term "bug" is used to a limited extent to designate any fault or trouble in the connections or working of electric apparatus.\n\nIn discussing the origin of the term, the book notes that the term is\n\nsaid to have originated in quadruplex telegraphy and have been transferred to all electric apparatus.\n\nCommon folk etymology says that the phrase "bugs in a telephone cable" was used to account for noisy lines. There is no support for this derivation.\n\nHowever, the term "bug" was used in the early days of telegraphy. There were the older "manual" keyers that required the operator to code the dots and dashes. And there were the newer, semi-automatic keyers that would send a string of dots automatically. These semi-automatic keyers were called "bugs". One of the most common brands of these keyers, the Vibroplex, used (and still does use) a graphic of a beetle.\n\nThese semi-automatic "bugs" were very useful, but required both skill and experience to use. If you were not experienced, using such a "bug" would mean garbled Morse Code.\n\nRadio technicians also used the term "bug" to describe a roach-shaped device consisting of a coil of wire with the two ends of wire sticking out and bent back to nearly touch each other. This device was used to look for radio emissions. This term "bug" was probably a predecessor to the modern use of "bug" to mean a covert monitoring or listening device.\n\nBut, lets go way, way back to Shakespeare. In Henry VI, part III, Act V, Scene II, King Edward says "So, lie thout there. Die though; and die our fear; For Warwick was a bug that fear'd us all."\n\nSamuel Johnson's first dictionary includes a definition of "bug" to mean a fightful object; a walking spectre
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Charles Babbage invented the computing machine..\n\nIts was series is research done to get the current form of computers
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I guess u mean who is thr discoverer of computers..well the Father of Computers is Charles Babbage.
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Well, the first "computer virus" was released 20 years ago this month.  It was called "Pakestani Brain", and was only spread by floppy disks.  That did not stop it from spreading around the world.\n\nDavid Gerrold is often aknowledged as creating the term "Computer Virus".  In 1972 he wrote a book called "When H.A.R.L.I.E. Was One".  In it, he talked about a series of "computer virus" which spread by themselves.  And remember, this was over a decade before they would exist for real.
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maybe it got coined from how wrenching it feels when one discovers they were irrefutably wrong.\n\nsorry, typo
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Originally, the term "computer" referred to a person who performed numerical calculations under the direction of a mathematician, possibly with the aid of a variety of mechanical calculating devices such as the abacus onward. Examples of early calculating devices, the first ancestors of the computer, included the abacus and the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient Greek device for calculating the movements of planets, dating from about 87 BCE. The end of the Middle Ages saw a reinvigoration of European mathematics and engineering, and Wilhelm Schickard's 1623 device was the first of a number of European engineers to construct a mechanical calculator\n\nCharles Babbage was the first to conceptualize and design a fully programmable computer as early as 1837, but due to a combination of the limits of the technology of the time, limited finance, and an inability to resist tinkering with his design, the device was never actually constructed in his lifetime. A number of technologies that would later prove useful in computing, such as the punch card and the vacuum tube had appeared by the end of the 19th century, and large-scale automated data processing using punch cards was performed by tabulating machines designed by Hermann Hollerith.\n\nDuring the first half of the 20th century, many scientific computing needs were met by increasingly sophisticated, special-purpose analog computers, which used a direct mechanical or electrical model of the problem as a basis for computation. These became increasingly rare after the development of the programmable digital computer.\n\nA succession of steadily more powerful and flexible computing devices were constructed in the 1930s and 1940s, gradually adding the key features of modern computers, such as the use of digital electronics (invented by Claude Shannon in 1937) and more flexible programmability. Defining one point along this road as "the first computer" is exceedingly difficult. Notable achievements include the Atanasoff-Berry Computer, a special-purpose machine that used valve-driven (vacuum tube) computation, binary numbers, and regenerative memory; the secret British Colossus computer (1944), which had limited programmability but demonstrated that a device using thousands of valves could be made reliable and reprogrammed electronically; the American ENIAC (1946) — which was one of the first general purpose machine, but still used the decimal system and incorporated an inflexible architecture that meant reprogramming it essentially required it to be rewired and Konrad Zuse's Z machines, with the electromechanical Z3 (1941) being the first working machine featuring automatic binary arithmetic and feasible programability.\n\nThe team who developed ENIAC, recognizing its flaws, came up with a far more flexible and elegant design, which has become known as the stored program architecture, which is the basis from which virtually all modern computers were derived. A number of projects to develop computers based on the stored program architecture commenced in the late 1940s; the first of these were completed in Britain. The first to be up and running was the Small-Scale Experimental Machine, but the EDSAC was perhaps the first practical version.\n\n \nThe Apple II, an early personal computerValve-driven computer designs were in use throughout the 1950s, but were eventually replaced with transistor-based computers, which were smaller, faster, cheaper, and much more reliable, thus allowing them to be commercially produced, in the 1960s. By the 1970s, the adoption of integrated circuit technology had enabled computers to be produced at a low enough cost to allow individuals to own a personal computer of the type familiar today.
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When the computer system crashes, it usually projects a blue screen to say the system has crashed (Early IBMs did that)
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Charles Babbage (1791-1871) is sometimes known as the Father of Computing and his Analytical Engine (designed in 1833-34) and Difference Engine (desigined in 1822) are widely believed to be the forerunners of computational machines and computers.\n\nUp until then, the word 'computer' existed but it meant a person who performed computations and calculations.
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Hello..Anyone from thr pals above are right about it. The PERSON WHO INVENTED COMPUTER FOR THE FIRST TIME . IT IS JOHN ATANASSOV. HE DIED ONLY A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO IN USA AND I HAVE THE PLEASURE TO KNOW ONE OF HIS GRANDCHILDREN!!
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The first computer program ever was a set of instructions punched into cards. \n\nThis kind of programming was used by Charles Babbage on his difference engines. The first reported program was written, or rather punched, by Babbages co-worker Ada Lovelace.\n\nThe first computers in the modern sense were constructed more than a century later by Konrad Zuse. They received their instructions by manually entering the first couple of bytes to initialize the processor and determine which hard-wired operations to perform.\n\nThese instructions were very basic boolean arithmetics - comparison of values, etc.
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Still Bill Gates\nhttp://www.forbes.com/2004/02/25/bill04land.html\n\nAnd, no, he didn't invent the computer.
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Charles Babbage's engines were among the first mechanical computers. His engines were not actually completed, largely because of funding problems and personality issues. \nBabbage realized that a machine could do the work better and more reliably than a human being.\n Although Babbage's machines were mechanical monsters their basic architecture was astonishingly similar to a modern computer. \nThe data and program memory were separated, operation was instruction based, control unit could make conditional jumps and the machine had a separate I/O unit.
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Charles Babbage, It was his initiative of the differential engine which led to the evolution of computer. For this reason, he's considered the father of computing.
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The first electronic calculation device using binary logic was built by Konrad Zuse in 1938. Check out the first link below.\n\nCharles Babbage built or at least conceived the first mechanical difference engines that could sort punch cards and even be programmed by punchcards.
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The year 2000 problem (also known as the Y2K problem and the millennium bug) was a flaw in computer program design that caused some date-related processing to operate incorrectly for dates and times on and after January 1, 2000. It turned into a major fear that critical industries (electricity, financial, etc.) and government functions would stop working at 12:00 AM, January 1, 2000, and at other critical dates which were billed as "event horizons". This fear was fueled by huge amounts of press coverage and speculation, as well as copious official corporate and government reports. All over the world companies and organizations checked and upgraded their computer systems. The preparation for Y2K had a significant effect on the computer industry.
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Go here and do it correctly.\n\nhttp://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/community/columns/bugbusting.mspx
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Bill W Gates\n- aka mr. windows !