STS/PREFINAL- THE CONCEPT OF BUGS AND DEBUGGING

• Grace Murray Hopper


  Creator of the first ever compiler and a Rear Admiral of the US Navy
• COBOL


  Common business-oriented language, a programming language used for government and business data processing for decades
• Google and Middleton Media will be releasing a biopic about Grace Murray Hopper in the near future
• The moth that flew towards the end of the animation symbolized the two-inch moth she caught stuck in Relay #70, Panel F of the Mark II Aiken Relay Calculator while it was being tested at Harvard University on September 9, 1947
• She found the trouble spot and removed the bug with a tweezer, and taped the bug in her log book and wrote "first actual case of bug being found," which somehow coined the term "debugging" in the computer world
• Mark II


  An electromechanical computer designed by Mark Aiken and Hopper with other Mark computers, used for addition and multiplication to satisfy the computing needs of America
• Charles Babbage


  An English mathematician who conceived a steam-driven calculating machine that was supposed to compute tables of numbers, known as the Analytical Machine
• Charles Babbage's Analytical Machine was never built while he was alive due to funding issues with the British government
• In 1991, the London Science Museum was able to complete a working version of the Analytical Engine
• Charles Babbage


  The "Father of the Computer"
• Enigma


  A cipher machine used by the German armed forces during the war to communicate on the battlefield
• Alan Turing


  A mathematical genius who was able to decode the German Enigma machine with help from fellow mathematicians
• Turing presented his paper "On Computable Numbers" at Princeton University in 1936 which introduced the Turing Machine
• Turing Machine


  A hypothetical machine that can manipulate symbols on a strip of tape according to a pre-set table of rules, forming the theoretical foundation of modern computer science
• Alan Turing


  The Father of Modern Computer Science
• Turing died in 1954 due to asphyxia caused by cyanide poisoning, which the authorities ruled as suicide due to the government's conviction of his homosexuality, which was taboo at that time in England
• Konrad Zuse


  The first person to build a working, programmable electromechanical digital computer in 1941, the Z3
• ENIAC


  The first electronic computer used for general purposes like solving numerical problems, started in 1943 and completed in 1946
• The female programmers of the ENIAC were never mentioned for the next 40 years until a research was made by Kathy Kleiman
• ARPANET


  Pentagon's Advanced Research Projects Agency Network, established in 1969 to make it possible for scientists in different research institutions to share information and cooperate with the military on scientific endeavors
• The first email was sent by Ray Tomlinson in 1972
• The Internet was established by the approval of the funding by the National Science Foundation

  January 1, 1986
• World Wide Web


  Invented by Sir Tim Berners-Lee in 1989, which would later cater to the needs of the public for free
• The Philippines ranked second (9 hours and 29 minutes per day for the 2nd and 3rd quarter of 2017) on the average number of hours spent by internet users among different countries, with the country going first place in the average number of hours spent using social media each day