| #2802761 in Books | 1996-04-30 | 1996-04-30 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.50 x.63 x5.50l,.86 | File type: PDF | 288 pages||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Interesting book|By Pete|Had to read this for a college course. Even given the fast pace of change in technologies, this book remains relevant.|15 of 15 people found the following review helpful.| Learn from software failures|By Bret Pettichord|Henry Petroski has written several books that explore his dictum, "Form follows fail|.com |In Fatal Defects: Chasing Killer Computer Bugs, Ivars Peterson describes dozens and dozens of hoary computer bugs and gives biographical sketches of the bug detectives who located and fixed them. This book, which reads like a novel, is both enterta
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.
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You easily download any file type for your gadget.Fatal Defect: Chasing Killer Computer Bugs | Ivars Peterson. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
