Ed Pawlowski writes:

On 5/18/2017 6:49 PM, wrote:
Who/what organization invented/coined the word "Software"? I can't
remember the first time I heard the word used at Bell Labs where I
worked from 1957 -2001.

John Tukey
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/07/28/us...-software.html

Interesting, Tukey worked at Bell Labs. I worked at Bell Labs -
Bellcore - Telcordia. I saw some of Tukey's work (software) he did for
the research division during the Telcordia era.

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Dan Espen