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:In [[1946]], when Hopper was released from active duty, she joined the [[Harvard University|Harvard]] Faculty at the Computation Laboratory where she continued her work on the Mark II and Mark III. She 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. [http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/Hopper.Danis.html]

Despite the colourfulnescolourfulness of the above anecdote, it is known that the use of the word "bug" to describe defects in mechanical systems dates back to at least the [[1870s]]. [[Thomas Edison]], for one, used the term in his notebooks.

== Preventing bugs ==