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A page from the Harvard Mark II electromechanical computer's log, featuring a dead moth that was removed from the device.
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Why do we call computer glitches “bugs”?

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Sonia Mendes
Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation
Dec 12, 2018
The term “bug” is another way of saying something is wrong with our computer or software, but where did the term come from? While many attribute the reference to computer scientist Grace Hopper, this article from Curiosity explains that it dates back to Thomas Edison’s private journals.
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Researching the untold story of Canada’s keypunch girls

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Oct 18, 2018
Last summer, the Canada Science and Technology Museum offered up access to its collection so that researcher Jennifer Thivierge could study “keypunch girls” — the women who punched holes in data cards and fed them into machines or tabulators, starting in the 1950s. The University of Ottawa’s Gazette writes about her findings, and what they say about gender discrimination within the field of computer science.
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Decoding the Dance of the Honey Bee, in Real-Time

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Lauren DiVito
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Oct 12, 2017
Since the deciphering of the honey bee ‘waggle’ in the 1920’s by Karl von Frisch, researchers have been measuring the dance-like form of communication that allows bees to convey direction and distance to a food source. While this observation process was initially manual and time-consuming – requiring humans, protractors, and stopwatches – techniques have evolved with technology. Recently, a team from the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the Free University of Berlin, Germany
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A New Take on the Robotic Arm: Tentacles

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Jesse Rogerson, PhD
Canada Aviation and Space Museum
Apr 21, 2017
Engineers are constantly taking cues from nature when designing new technologies, and the robotic tentacle arm created by German robotics company, Festo, is a great example.

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