Fatal Defect: Chasing Killer Computer Bugs - Couverture rigide

Peterson, Ivars

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ISBN 10 : 0812920236 ISBN 13 : 9780812920239

Editeur : Times Books, 1995

Synopsis

Book by Peterson Ivars

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

An airplane crashes, killing eighty-seven passengers. A cancer patient receives a fatal dose of radiation from a machine designed to be foolproof. The ATMs at a New York bank debit customers twice their actual withdrawals, resulting in a loss of millions of dollars. In every case, the culprit was a computer bug, a software error or design defect that may escape detection until it erupts into the real world with sometimes catastrophic results.

This arresting and at times terrifying book tells us just how prevalent these defects are and how they are multiplying as computers become more sophisticated and more deeply embedded in our daily lives. It is also a riveting portrait of the men and women who find and "exterminate" those bugs, whether they occur in pocket calculators or nuclear reactors.

Fatal Defect reveals what you should know about the computers in our lives. Read it before you buy a computer, use a cash machine, or book an airplane flight. Then pray that one of its real-life heroes was on the job.

Revue de presse

"The book is both amusing and a quite serious argument for never assuming computers are flawless."

-- San Diego Union-Tribune"Peterson's book is an entertaining introduction to the problems of creating reliable computer systems."

-- Christian Science Monitor

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Times Books
• Date d'édition: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0812920236
• ISBN 13: 9780812920239
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 288