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 ...

Better known as malware, malicious software is defined as software that has a malicious effect or was developed with a malicious intent. Malware can cause significant slowdowns of your systems, ...

SANTA CRUZ — Teenagers playing on their iPads might soon have a greater purpose than avoiding homework: debugging computer code in the name of national security. Researchers at UC Santa Cruz have ...

In this article we introduce the problem of computer software reliability and discuss a probabilistic model for describing the failure of software. We suggest a procedure for estimating the parameters ...

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 ...