How an irritating acquaintance became shorthand for a computer glitch.

A moth taped to a logbook page in 1947 became one of the most repeated origin stories in computing, and the physical evidence still exists. During testing of the Harvard Mark II at a Navy facility, ...

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 ...

NASA scientists are developing a software ‘checker program’ to find ‘bugs’ in spacecraft computer code more quickly and accurately to improve space mission safety. Ever since a moth crawled into an ...

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 ...

NASA scientists today announced they are releasing free software that will find ‘bugs,’ or defects, in Java computer code. The new software, Java Pathfinder, is classified as ‘open source software.’ ...

MAKING music out of computer code is helping programmers to catch the bugs that can cause software to go awry. Computer code is often prone to errors that are difficult to spot. In a long program, ...

A fix for a new computer bug could impact more than 20,000 websites, rendering them unreadable. WSJ's Jennifer Valentino-DeVries reports on MoneyBeat. Photo: iStock/mikkelwilliam ...