The Queen of Code. I'm Jason Horton. I'm Rebecca Leib. And this is Ghost Town.

Porting to Technopedia, a computer bug or software bug is generally defined as

in IT, a bug refers to an error, fault, or flaw in any computer program or hardware system.

A bug produces unexpected results or causes a system to behave unexpectedly.

In short, it is any behavior or result that a program or system gets, but it was not designed to do.

But the story of why we call computer bugs bugs is pretty strange. It starts from New York City on

December 9th, 1906, when Prokosius Grace Hopper is born. She's obsessed with gadgets at a very

young age, graduated five-way Akappa at Vassar, and then earned a PhD from Yale in 1934,

with a thesis on new types of irreducibility criteria. In 1936, she published a paper on the

ungenerated 7 as an index to Pythagorean number theory in the American Mathematical Monthly,

which made her a kind of math superstar, especially as a woman. With the outbreak of World War II,

Hopper repeatedly tried to join the Navy, but at 100 pounds and 34 years old, she was rejected many

times. But she wasn't the type to take note for an answer, so she obtained a waiver for the

weight requirement, special government permission, and a leave of absence from Vassar, where she was

teaching. In December 1943, she was sworn to the U.S. Naval Reserve. She went on to train at

Midshipman School for Women, graduating first in her class. Hopper's first assignment was under

Commander Howard Aiken, at the Bureau of Ordnance Computation at Harvard University. There she

became the third programmer of the Mark I, the world's first large-scale, automatically sequenced

digital computer. The computer was used to calculate aiming angles for naval guns and varying

weather conditions. Because the numbers were so pertinent, Hopper and her assistants were often

required to run and monitor the system 24 hours a day. They spent countless hours transcribing

and inputting codes for Mark I and its successors, Mark II and III. Hopper received the Naval

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