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From crashing computers to airplane crashes that claim scores of lives, the computer virus has become a growing plague of late twentieth-century life. This arresting and at times terrifying book tells us just how prevalent these software errors and defects are and how they are multiplying as more sophisticated computers become deeply embedded in our daily lives. As it explores the digital bugs that can cause such catastrophic results, it also offers a riveting portrait of the men and women who find and exterminate these viruses and glitches, whether they occur in pocket calculators or nuclear reactors. "An entertaining introduction to the problems of creating reliable computer systems."-- "The Christian Science Monitor"
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"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
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This arresting and at time 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.
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- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 0679740279
- ISBN 13 9780679740278
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. 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. This arresting and at time 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. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780679740278
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