Engineers working on the Harvard Mark II computer in 1947 found a moth jammed inside the machine’s relay hardware. They taped the dead insect into the operations log book and scrawled a now-famous ...

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 ...

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’s a fun bit of etymological folklore that claims the use of the word “bug,” as in a computer bug, alludes to an actual insect that crawled inside what was, at the time, one of the largest and ...