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In 1946, she joined the Harvard Faculty at the Computation Laboratory where she traced an error in the Harvard Mark II to a moth trapped in a relay.

bug – often (but erroneously) credited to Grace Hopper.

Used in computing due to the apparent paradox that a computer must run code to load anything into memory, but code cannot be run until it is loaded.

booting or bootstrapping – from the phrase " to pull oneself up by one's bootstraps", originally used as a metaphor for any self-initiating or self-sustaining process.

Bon – created by Ken Thompson and named either after his wife Bonnie, or else after "a religion whose rituals involve the murmuring of magic formulas" (a reference to the Tibetan native religion Bön).

Tukey, who had used the word in a Bell Labs memo of 9 January 1947.

Shannon's "bit" is a portmanteau of " binary digit". Shannon in his seminal 1948 paper A Mathematical Theory of Communication. The Jargon File contradicts this description, but confirms at least that the dog existed. Some sources report that the dog would bark at the mail carrier, making it a natural choice for the name of a mail notification system.

biff – named after a dog known by the developers at Berkeley, who – according to the UNIX manual page – died on 15 August 1993, at the age of 15, and belonged to a certain Heidi Stettner.B – probably a contraction of " BCPL", reflecting Ken Thompson's efforts to implement a smaller BCPL in 8 KB of memory on a DEC PDP-7.The first case of an actual computer bug, a moth trapped in a relay of the Harvard Mark II