The invention of the term "bug" is often erroneously attributed to Grace Hopper, who publicized the cause of a malfunction in an early electromechanical computer.   A typical version of the story is given by this quote:     “    In 1946, when Hopper was released from active duty, she joined   the Harvard Faculty at the Computation Laboratory where she continued her   work on the Mark-II and Mark-III ( The   Harvard   Mark II   was   an electromechanical computer built at    Harvard University   under   the direction of   Howard and was finished in 1947. It was financed by the    United States navy ) .   Operators traced an error in the Mark II to a moth trapped in a   relay, coining the term bug. This bug was carefully removed and   taped to the log book. Stemming from the first bug, today we call errors or   glitch's in a program a bug .    ”    Hopper was not actually the one who found the insect, as she readily acknowledged. The...