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i think you are right about it being grace hopper. she was involved with
PSU comp sci program and they had a plaque about her - it included the
nine inch copper wire=1 nanosecond and coining the term "bug"
> On Saturday, September 28, 2002, at 02:29 PM, jeff wrote:
>>> Penn, Eniac, a moth had caused a short. Can't remember the name of
>>> the woman who diagnosed the problem and removed the moth from the
>>> circuit -- the first debugger.
>
> Grace Hopper. ... Actually, I don't recall off hand if it was she or
> Kay Mauchley.
>
> However, the story was part and parcel of Grace's presentations (along
> with her "nanosecond" piece of wire. It's documented in the various
> histories about ENIAC.
>
> But it IS where the term "debug" came from.
>
> T.T.F.N.
> William H. Magill
> magill@mcgillsociety.org
> magill@acm.org
>
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