Software Reliability


Sprawling systems teeter on IT chaos -- Duncan Graham-Rowe  -- New Scientist  -- November 27, 2004
Metacomputing

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.

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NSA plots software center -- Florence Olsen  -- Federal Computer Weekly  -- October 15, 2004
Information Warfare

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.

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Group Tackles Software Quality -- Neil Irwin  -- Washington Post  -- May 16, 2002
Metacomputing

Major software companies, government agencies and academics yesterday launched a consortium that aims to find ways to make software more dependable and secure.

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Autonomic Computing -- W. Wayt Gibbs  -- Scientific American  -- May 6, 2002
Metacomputing

Programs crash, people make mistakes, networks grow and change. That?s life, and computer scientists are finally building
systems that can deal with it.

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Survival in an Insecure World -- W. Wayt Gibbs  -- Scientific American  -- May 1, 2002
Metacomputing

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.

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A unified theory of software evolution -- Sam Williams  -- Salon  -- April 8, 2002
Metacomputing

The author examines Meir Lehman's theory of software evolution which tries to analyze the life cycle of large-scale software programs.

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Computer crash strikes space station -- Will Knight  -- New Scientist  -- February 2, 2002
Space Expansion

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.

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Computer Crash -- Duncan Graham-Rowe  -- New Scientist  -- April 27, 2001
Space Expansion

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.

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Panic station -- Duncan Graham-Rowe  -- New Scientist  -- April 26, 2001
Space Expansion

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.

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National Missile Defense: The Trustworthy Software Argument -- William Yurcik  -- The CPSR Newsletter  -- March 1, 2001
Missile Defense

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.

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