[Ads-l] Grace Murray Hopper Honored by Yale

[MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY RDECOM AMRDEC (US)]

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> I was the first to really question the Hopper/moth myth, in several articles beginning in the 1980s.  The definitive citations are given by
> Peggy Kidwell in an article in the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing.  I believe she traced "debugging" back to 1944.
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> Fred Shapiro
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Stalking the elusive computer bug 
  P. A. Kidwell  
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 
 Year: 1998, Volume: 20, Issue: 4 
 Pages: 5 - 9, DOI: 10.1109/85.728224


She cites some other articles of interest, including

F.R. Shapiro, "'The First Bug' Examined," Annals of the History of Computing, vol. 6, no. 2, p. 164, 1984.  

and

F.R. Shapiro, "Etymology of the Computer Bug:  History and Folklore," Am. Speech, vol. 62, pp 376-378, 1987.

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