PITTSBURGH - Computer bugs, or errors in software, can mess up just about anything: They've been blamed for missing homework, blackouts, prison breaks and even the loss of multimillion-dollar space ...

Fixing design bugs and wrong wire connections in computer chips after they've been fabricated in silicon is a tedious, trial-and-error process that often costs ...

Debugging computers in the 1950s sounds like it wasn’t an easy task. That’s one of the interesting facts from this fascinating talk by [Guy Fedorkow] about the Whirlwind, one of the first digital ...

The latest trends in software development from the Computer Weekly Application Developer Network. Tel Aviv and Palo Alto headquartered Rookout thinks it should. The company’s rapid production ...

When IBM released its729 Magnetic Tape Unit in 1959, Eisenhower was the sitting president. Alaska and Hawaii had just been admitted to the union as full-fledge states. No human had yet been in space.

So, the story goes something like this. In 1947, in Virginia, US, an error was spotted on the Harvard Mark II, one of the first programmable computers in the world. A ...

The latest trends in software development from the Computer Weekly Application Developer Network. Debugging is getting rid of software bugs, obviously. Production debugging is getting rid of software ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich.---Fixing design bugs and wrong wire connections in computer chips after they've been fabricated in silicon is a tedious, trial-and-error process that ...