The UK government has initiated a research program aimed at finding ways to avert catastrophic software failures in critical IT networks like healthcare or banking systems.
The National Security Agency's top information security official disclosed plans this week for a government-funded research center devoted to improving the security of commercial software, calling the initiative a modern-day Manhattan Project.
Major software companies, government agencies and academics yesterday launched a consortium that aims to find ways to make software more dependable and secure.
Programs crash, people make mistakes, networks grow and change. That?s life, and computer scientists are finally building systems that can deal with it.
David Fisher has created a new computer language that will allow the creation of computer systems that can adapt around attack or sabotage, maintaining survivability by sacrificing components if necessary.
The author examines Meir Lehman's theory of software evolution which tries to analyze the life cycle of large-scale software programs.
One of the computer systems aboard the International Space Station (ISS) crashed, shutting down solar power generation and temporarily severing communications with Earth. The cause of the computer crash remains a mystery.
As NASA continues its struggle to regain control of the International Space Station computers, experts have warned that this could be just the first of many computer crashes.
The National Missile Defense (NMD) system being developed by the U.S. revisits many of the technical software engineering arguments surrounding the failed Strategic Defense Initiative.