Grace Hopper is known as the “Mother of Computing” for her pioneering work in the field. In the early days of computing, Hopper was responsible for finding and fixing bugs in software. One of her most famous bug fixes was the “Grace Hopper Computer Bug” in the Harvard Mark II computer.
In 1944, Hopper and her team were working on the Mark II computer, which was the first computer to use transistors. They were testing the computer’s memory when they discovered a bug that caused the computer to crash. Hopper was able to find and fix the bug, and she …