NSF hires expert to tackle ‘millennium bug’

HIV: the millennium bug.

By the end of 1999 hundreds of “millennial” appellations were being sprouted. Should the field of microbiology have been included? Throughout the second millennium epidemics claimed vast numbers of lives — the bubonic plague killed 50 million people in the Middle Ages, and the influenza epidemic took 20–40 million lives in the years immediately following World War I. But as modern medicine has ...

The Millennium Bug – Reasons not to Panic

There has been a lot of noise about the millennium bug, but little hard data. Many organisations have spent a fortune on the problem but refuse to share their findings. Governments tell their citizens not to panic while making panicky contingency plans in private. Few of the ‘experts’ in the field are willing to predict the outcome. Here I report the results of an examination of the systems use...

Antibiotics for the millennium bug in your practice.

From the Economics of Qwerty to the Millennium Bug, and Beyond

An empirical study on how expert knowledge affects bug reports

Bug reports are crucial software artifacts for both software maintenance researchers and practitioners. A typical use of bug reports by researchers is to evaluate automated software maintenance tools: a large repository of reports is used as input for a tool, and metrics are calculated from the tool’s output. But this process is quite different from practitioners, who distinguish between report...