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Fatal Defect: Chasing Killer Computer Bugs

Name: Fatal Defect: Chasing Killer Computer Bugs
Brand: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
SKU: 9780679740278
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ISBN: 9780679740278

FATAL DEFECT

Contributor(s): Peterson, Ivars Author Format: Paperback

Paperback · ISBN 9780679740278

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ISBN	9780679740278
Subtitle	FATAL DEFECT
Publisher	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date	April 1996
Language	English
MRP	£13.42 GBP
Page count	290
Item weight	82 g

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.

Fatal Defect: Chasing Killer Computer Bugs

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Peterson, Ivars Author

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