Who first used the term software and when?

Question

Which English computer scientist and MIT professor implemented the first successful communication between an HTTP client and server via the Internet on 25 December 1990 and is credited with inventing the World Wide Web?

Answer 1

John W. Tukey

He reportedly came up with the word in 1953 to mark the difference between computer programs and the computers (or "hardware") that use the programs. John W. Tukey, a chemist and statistician, is credited with the first printed use of the term software when he wrote a scientific article in 1958.

Answer 2

The term "software" was first proposed by Alan Turing and used in this sense by John W. Tukey in 1957.