FOXNEWS Americas Newsroom June 4, 2024 15:52:00
Story of an admiral. >> we have admiral hopper to thank for computer bugs but not in the way you think. she received a ph.d. in mathematics from yale in 1934 when world war ii erupted, hopper took a leave of absence from her professorship to join the navy women's reserve. in 1944, hopper was commissioned as a lieutenant junior grade and assigned to a project at harvard university that built one of the world's first computers. hopper stayed at harvard after the war building two more computers for the navy and it was there that she popularized the terms bug and debugging to describe computer mal...