A moth taped to a logbook page in 1947 became one of the most repeated origin stories in computing, and the physical evidence ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. American engineers have been calling ...

There is an interesting story from the history of technology behind the term "computer bug." Surprisingly, the word "bug" in this context originated not from a virus, but from an actual insect. The ...

NASA scientists are developing a software ‘checker program’ to find ‘bugs’ in spacecraft computer code more quickly and accurately to improve space mission safety. Ever since a moth crawled into an ...