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Re: Grace Hopper
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Matthew White <[log in to unmask]>
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I believe this is what you are talking about.

http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_334663

It was from the Mark II project, but I don't recall that it was associated with her specifically. I think she gets some attribution for coining the phrase "debugging."

The term "bug" in technical projects and inventions pre-dates the Mark II, though.

Matt
On Dec 9, 2013, at 6:57 PM, Beryl Rosenthal <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

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> I don't know if it's urban legend, but I remember hearing a story about a fly getting stuck inside one of her early computer tubes, hence the term "bug".
> Beryl
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> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Raphael Rosen <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Dec 9, 2013 2:14 PM
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>> Subject: Re: Grace Hopper
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>> Thanks for those links.
>> 
>> Raphael
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>> Sent from my iPhone
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>>> On Dec 9, 2013, at 12:21 PM, Eileen Campbell <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>>> Grace Hopper was the Computer History Museum's first Fellow Award
>>> recipient. They interviewed her biographer in 2010:
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tld9C4o_qwQ
>>> 
>>> And here's Grace herself:
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ra2kt1Mpg8
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>>> Eileen Campbell
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>>>> On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 8:23 AM, Eric Siegel <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>>>> Never knew who she was until todays google doodle
>>>> 
>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-vcErOPofQ
>>>> 
>>>> Amazing woman, love her illustration of what a billionth of a second is.
>>>> 
>>>> Eric
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