Talk:Howard H. Aiken
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what is this room about i am confused i came in here for information for my project
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There seems to be conflicting information as to who coined the term "debug", was it Howard Aiken, or Grace Hopper? Each of the respective wikipedia articals claim that they were the one who coined the term. A google search for Howard Aiken and debug turns up 602 results for Aiken, while a search of Grace Hopper and debug turn up 590. A number of web articals give credit to one or the other, if the artical is about Aiken, they give him credit, likewise for Hopper. I did read in a few articals that Hopper was not present when the bug was found, but that she was the one who made the term popular. --Pchov 02:52, August 21, 2005 (UTC)
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Actually, neither of them coined it. The technician who found the moth pasted it into the log book with the phrase (I am quoting from memory, and the emphasis is added) "First instance of *actual* bug found" - implying that *theoretical* bugs were already being discussed, and also very funny.
In fact, even Edison referred to vexing problems as "bugs." The whole story that the moth was the origin of the term "bug" is plain wrong, though it may have helped popularize it. Let me see if I can grab the quote I'm thinking of for you. Aha, it's in the wikipedia article on the term "computer bug": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_bug
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I'm a little confused as to why March 9, 1900 is listed as Aiken's birthday. The article doesn't cite a source for that and this AmercianHeritage.com biography lists his birthday as March 8, 1990. Unless anyone has seen an opposing source, I'll go ahead and make the change.
Bernard Cohen's biography "Howard Aiken, Portrait of a Computer Pioneer", says (on page 9) Aiken was born on 1900-03-08. Roger Hui 08:13, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
Well, that's interesting then, what do we do? Anyone got a third source? --Atduskgreg 07:25, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
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