Software Engneering

Principles

"Software"

The term software was first introduced by John Tukey. He is also credited with coining the term 'bit'

The first published use of the term "softwareOffsite Link" in a computing context is often credited to American statistician John W. TukeyOffsite Link, who published the term in "The Teaching of Concrete Mathematics," American Mathematical MonthlyOffsite Link, January 9, 1958. Tukey wrote:

"Today the 'software' comprising the carefully planned interpretive routines, compilers, and other aspects of automative programming are at least as important to the modern electronic calculator as its 'hardware' of tubes, transistors, wires, tapes and the like" (http://www.maa.org/mathland/mathtrek_7_31_00.htmlOffsite Link, accessed 02-02-2010).

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